[Fedora] Re: rpm problem

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>See if this works:
>cd /mnt/storage/RH/Updates/4/i386
># rpm -Uvh \
>glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i686.rpm \
>glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm \
>glibc-devel-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm \
>glibc-headers-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm
>
    This works.  However, my question still stands, why does it fail 
initially when I do a wildcard update?

>If you've mirrored the "repodata" directory along with the packages
>themselves, you could actually use yum:
>  
>
    I don't mirror that because I don't use yum.  rpm has always proven 
successful to me, so why change to yum (which I did and it caused me all 
kinds of problems.)

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