Re: up2date (via modem) vs. rpm (via CDROM)?
"Lamar Milligan" <[email protected]>
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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 .... > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! > http://platinum.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > enigma-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/enigma-list