At 13:26 12/27/99 +0100, Benno Senoner wrote:
>On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Prasanth Kumar wrote:
>> I just burned all the update RPMS to a cdrom and then do a "rpm -F" which
>> "freshens", or updates only the previously installed packages.
>
>Is this rpm -F 100% safe ?
I've done it a couple times now without problem. Once on a few hundred rpms
(manually upgrading the HARD WAY)
>Is there a way to upgrade all rpms without the need of installing all
updates
>in right orders.
it seems to handle that, I once had two versions of one package (had been
patched twice) and it only installed the newest.
>What would be the right procedure to apply all redhat-updates in one shot ?
it still takes some human intuition... but nothing that couldn't be scripted
I'm sure...
ncftp updates.redhat.com/yada/yada/yada/*.rpm
mkdir manual
mv *kernel* manual
ls *.rpm
rpm -Fhv *.rpm
what is missing is handling of {4|5|6}86 packages... although I don't think
I've ever seen any in the x86 updates directory; and non-kernel packages
with "non-trivial" installations, which would also need to be put into
manual/ and dealt with by hand. This info can of course be found by reading
the errata docs.
>Do I need to use the --nodeps flag , it yes could it lead to problems ?
I never have....
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