Updating Fedora 3 non-internet

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Wed Feb 16 13:15:55 UTC 2005


Jeff Vian wrote:
> Since you are wanting to do the update manually, just download all the
> updates, remove the older versions, then burn the remaining to CD.
> 
> Now an rpm -Fvh will work with just the latest, since that is all it has
> to look at.

You should be careful with this: you can find that RPM chooses to
install an i586 RPM as an update to an i686 RPM. This is, admittedly,
better than having an i686 glibc installed on a K6 or Via C3, but it
still might not be desirable.

James.

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