Best way to update RH 7.2?

[George France]

Thanks Michal!

Do not forget to check the "release-notes" file in the updates directory, 
which will help you update packages like Perl and PHP.

Best Regards,


--George

On Friday 23 July 2004 11:37 pm, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:16:51PM -0700, Donald White wrote:
> > This weekend I would like to apply the updates from ftp2.compaq.com.
> > What is the best way to do this?  I have them already downloaded.
> > Should I let rpm just do its thing?
>
> The simple thing is in a directory with what you downloaded to run
>
>    rpm -Fvh *.rpm
>
> There are two minor catches here.  If you have, say,
> 'glibc-....alpha.rpm' and 'glibc-....alphaev56.rpm', or possibly
> still another variant, then make sure that in a directory you
> are executing the command above is only _one_ of such packages
> and that one you want to install or you will get conflicts.
>
> The other one is that a newer package from your set may have new
> additional dependencies and then the above will fail until you
> install a required extra package (which may, or may not, require
> use a '--force' flag making your installation temporarily
> inconsistent).
>
> > Build a yum repository?
>
> That can be done quite easily once you have 'yum' functional on
> your system.  Run 'yum-arch' on a directory which holds all your
> new packages and they run
>
>    yum -c my.own.config update
>
> where a url in my.own.config looks like
>
>   baseurl=file:///path/to/my/directory/where/are/headers
>
> (i.e. directory named "headers" and not header files).
> This should resolve both problems above automatically but I have
> to say that I never really tried yum on alpha. I did play on
> alpha with apt-get but setting that is a tad more complicated
> (nothing which is not described in docs).
>
>    Michal
>
>
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