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 > > 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. I'm must be missing something obvious here... leave off the --replacepkgs, and they won't be reinstalled, i.e. rpm -Uvh *.rpm will update where necessary, and install where necessary. Cheers, Phil
