RPM

[mjwestkamper]

I have had such a problem getting up2date to work I've downloaded the update
directory from a mirror onto my local machine. What rpm options do I use to
upgrade the packages? Better ask before I screw something up.

Any help will be greatly appreicated.

Mike

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[Jeremy Hogan]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 18:22, Mike Westkamper wrote:
> I have had such a problem getting up2date to work I've downloaded the update
> directory from a mirror onto my local machine. What rpm options do I use to
> upgrade the packages? Better ask before I screw something up.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreicated.

Not the recommended way of doing things, but hey, caveat emptor.

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

Will attempt to upgrade anything installed, or install it if it isn't
already.

rpm -Fvh *.rpm

Will upgrade just the installed packages and ignore the others.

You may get weird dependency errors with either.

--jeremy
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[Bevan C. Bennett]

Mike Westkamper wrote:
> I have had such a problem getting up2date to work I've downloaded the update
> directory from a mirror onto my local machine. What rpm options do I use to
> upgrade the packages? Better ask before I screw something up.

I've been using yum for this, with good success.
1) edit the relevant bit of /etc/yum.conf to something like:
(This assumes you put the RPMs in /home/fedora/1/updates)

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=file:///home/fedora/$releasever/updates
gpgcheck=1

2) # yum-arch /home/fedora/$releasever/updates
3) yum update

I've been very happy ever since I switched to yum. It's tasty.

[William Hooper]

Bevan C. Bennett said:
> Mike Westkamper wrote:
> > I have had such a problem getting up2date to work I've downloaded the
> > update
> > directory from a mirror onto my local machine. What rpm options do I use
> > to
> > upgrade the packages? Better ask before I screw something up.
>
> I've been using yum for this, with good success.
> edit the relevant bit of /etc/yum.conf to something like:
>
> (This assumes you put the RPMs in /home/fedora/1/updates)

Up2date also supports updating from a directory (look at the comments in
the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file).

[William Hooper]

Mike Westkamper said:
> I have had such a problem getting up2date to work I've downloaded the
> update
> directory from a mirror onto my local machine. What rpm options do I use
> to
> upgrade the packages? Better ask before I screw something up.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreicated.

One easy way to do it is put the RPM in /var/spool/up2date (which is where
up2date downloads them), then run up2date again (after configuring it for
a mirror, of course).

[dalen]

Mike Westkamper wrote:
> I have had such a problem getting up2date to work I've downloaded the update
> directory from a mirror onto my local machine. What rpm options do I use to
> upgrade the packages? Better ask before I screw something up.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreicated.
>
> Mike

Mike,
    You might want to give yum a try.  The following url relates to this 
http://www.fedorazine.com/content/view/77/38/

Thanks,

Dale

[Sturla Holm Hansen]

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 00:22, Mike Westkamper wrote:
> I have had such a problem getting up2date to work I've downloaded the update
> directory from a mirror onto my local machine. What rpm options do I use to
> upgrade the packages? Better ask before I screw something up.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreicated.
>
> Mike
>
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Haven't really tried yum, fell in love with apt-get first go, even
upgraded my box from rh9 to fc1 without trouble...

Sturla