On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Skahan, Vince wrote: > > I'm cooking up a custom installer/updater that is > intended to: > - add rpms needing adding > - update rpms needing updating > - do nothing to rpms already present > > I know that I can 'rpm -F' to freshen/update only the rpms that > need updating to a newer version, and do nothing to rpms that > are already installed. > > I know I can 'rpm -i' to install new rpms, but it blows up if you give > it a list of rpms that contains something already present on the system. > > What I'd like to do is pass a long list of rpms, and have > rpm "do the right thing" (don't see that switch there :-) > > Doing "rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs *.rpm" is very close to what I'm looking > for in terms of behavior, except it actually reinstalls rpms that are in > the *.rpm list that are already present on the system. I just want it to > skip rpms that don't need updating (ala Freshen) while still being > smart enough to install new stuff that's not on disk yet. > > Anybody know of any combination of rpm options that does this ? Not possible with rpm alone but there have been a number of scripts posted on this list which do more-or-less that. For a more intelligent updater take a look at the rpm port of apt: http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/ -- - Panu -
