You may want to look into autoupdate, written by Gerald Teschel. Here's the homepage: http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~gerald/ftp/autoupdate/index.html I've been quite happy with it, and have been using it to keep a large number of workstations in sync. Cheers, Erik. On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 15:42, Skahan, Vince wrote: > I see that rh72 has a perl update available. Cool. The problem is that > it adds four new corequisites, also available as "updates". Not cool. > > Those new packages are 'not' updates to existing rh72 packages. They're > new packages delivered in the updates tree on redhat.com. Is there any way > to batch-mode get the new perl (and prerequisites/corequisites) installed in > a simple way ? > > Other than the obvious "hey RH, that was dumb" comment, I guess I see a > limitation in rpm. > rpm -ivh installs something new > rpm -Uvh upgrades something there before absolutely > rpm -Fvh freshens something that's there before if needed only > > There doesn't seem to be an option saying: > - freshen what is there already > and > - install any corequisites/prerequisites needed to do the freshening > > I'd like to just have one big directory of all the updates available for > rh72 > at this time, and say "update everything I have installed, plus anything > else for the new updates too" without needing to absolutely specify the > rpms to update. > > Is there any way to do this, assuming that I have a local CD of updates > installed/mounted and no Internet connectivity at all when doing the update > ? > > -- > ---------- vince.skahan@xxxxxxxxxx -------------- > Connexion by Boeing - Cabin Network > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
