Re: fedora update

[Patrick Dupre]

Since I can access to all the rpm files on the DVD, I expected to find a tool to 
verify the *.rpm files!
Does it not exist?
Something like rpm -Vp
> Patrick Dupre writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I burnt a DVD fedora 20 to update my distro.
>
> I do not believe that updating via the distro DVD images is implemented any 
> more. You must use fedup to update.
> > However, it fails the test at 12.6%.
> > It there a risk to make an update using fedup?
>
> Yes.
> > I always have the option to download a package which may
> > be damaged.
>
> You are assuming that you will be able to boot at all, after skipping the 
> damaged package.
>
> If the damaged package is glibc, or one of the critical gnome, systemd, or 
> kernel packages, don't expect to be able to boot the resulting brick.
>
> Also, you do not know whether the remaining 88% of your DVD is any good at 
> all.
>
> Besides, this is probably a moot point, since updating must be done via 
> fedup.
>
> If you do happen to have a DVD image, you could skip downloading a bunch of 
> stuff by using fedup --iso. But you don't need to actually burn the ISO 
> image, for that, and, in fact, fedup does not support CD/DVD based updates 
> (as I was amusingly informed on one of my machines by fedup, which was very 
> convinced that my /home mount, with the DVD image, was a physical DVD drive).

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fedora update

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:30:40 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> Since I can access to all the rpm files on the DVD, I expected to find a tool to 
> verify the *.rpm files!
> Does it not exist?
> Something like rpm -Vp

rpm -K file.rpm

Or for many files: find . -name *.rpm | xargs rpm -K

You could also "fix" the downloaded DVD image using rsync and a download
mirror server offering rsync access.