Fedora 7 updates on computers without internet

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 15:46 +0100, ne... wrote:
> On 8/11/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/9/07, James Kosin <jkosin at beta.intcomgrp.com> wrote:
> <...>
> > > Then, use 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' on the CDROM files.
> > >
> > > - -James
> >
> > Shouldn't that be "rpm -Uvh *.rpm"?
> rpm -Uvh will install files that were note previously on the system.
> rpm -Fvh will update only those rpms that were initially on the
> system. It will skip those that were not previously installed. 
You explanation of -U is wrong this will upgrade files that exist on the
system as well as install files that were not on the system.

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