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

Paul Thompson wrote:
>    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
> 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 ....

rpm -Uvh or rpm -Fvh will figure out the dependencies and the correct 
order.  Another thing that you could do is copy the rpm files to 
/var/spool/up2date and then run up2date.  It will see the rpms are 
already downloaded, check their integrity and install them.

Forrest
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