up2date question again

[Hauser Marcel]

Hi all

ok.. i have a RH 7.2 based Firewall. On the firewall.. there is no up2date installed.

I would like to achieve:
- update the rpm packages of the firewall.

What i did:
I've copied the whole /var/lib/rpm folder of the firewall to a RH 8 System with up2date installed (saved the original folder on a different place). Then i ran up2date -u -d. I've got arroung 10 rpm's.

questions:
- Shouldn't there be more updates available ? The RH 8 box shows about 20 updates !!

- how can i update that 7.2 System to RH8 WITHOUT "updateing" it from the cd ? the reason for this question is... when i ran up2date for that 7.2 system.. it said something about checking updates for RedHat 7.2... so i guess i just got a list of updates for RH 7.2.... is there a way to retrieve an upate to rh 8 this way ? (tweak up2date, that it reports that the actual system is rh 8 instead of rh 7.2 ? )

Thanks for any help

Marcel




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