Re: up2date (via modem) vs. rpm (via CDROM)?

"Lamar Milligan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.enigma
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Thompson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 9:23 AM
Subject: up2date (via modem) vs. rpm (via CDROM)?


>    Whenever there's a new kernel release, it takes me
> 3-5 days to get my home system updated using up2date.
> I have a faster connection at work, so I can download
> the .rpms and burn a CDROM.
>    Assuming I have a CDROM with all (or most? or too
> many?? how do I know???)  of the rpms required to get
> me updated, can I tell up2date to use these files
> instead of trying to fetch from RHN?  I'm guessing I
> could use rpm ("rpm -Uvhp /mnt/cdrom/*.rpm") but I'm

I've done this myself, with one modification.  I use
"rpm -Fvh /mnt/cdrom/*.rpm" to do the job. This will freshen, not
install, the packages.

> doubting that it will figure out the correct order of
> installation, which means I'm assuming that there *IS*
> a correct order (eg. glibc-common before glibc-profile
> before glibc-2.2.4-32 before ....).
>    Any direction would be appreciated ....
>
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