Yep. The -Fvh slip was a result of boilerplate text. The perl errata requires -Uvh; when using -Uvh, it should work properly. (shameless plug) Also worth noting is that up2date solves all of the issues; rhn_register will set your machine up, and up2date will deliver updates. https://rhn.redhat.com/ for details. It's free for home/individual users, so it may help in this case. :) Chip "James S. Martin" <james.martin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Yes Redhat really screwed up when they released that Perl errata > update, and I grilled them for it. Originally they said it could be > updated with a -Fvh, so I submitted a bug > report,(http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60800) > which they closed, and then I resubbed it, and they went and fixed the > page, and changed it to a Uvh. > > -- > James S. Martin > RHCE (Redhat Certified Engineer) > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Chip Turner cturner@xxxxxxxxxx Red Hat Network
