Debian has that for a long time. And now Conectiva have ported the wonderful APT :D Just give a look at http://apt.freshrpms.net/ . It does what you describe : "packages as you need". With alternatives intruduced in 7.3 this will work even better. This is very powerful beacause you'll have a package call mta which can be provided by sendmail,postfix,qmai,exim,etc and combining that with an application that automaticlly satisfy your dependencies this will be great J. On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 22:42, 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 -- "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat."
