An update is needed Fedora!

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Wed Feb 23 23:17:21 UTC 2005


Rene Bon Ciric (Renich) wrote:
> Ok, I forgot to standout that Jim Cornette's proposed solution is the first alternative if the actual procedure fails
> 
> p.d. Forgive my grammar... English is not my primary language!
> 
>  8-) 
> 
> 

Since you rebuilt all of the rpms from source already, I think that the 
suggestion that Robert made about putting all of the rpms in a single 
directory and running rpm -Fvh *.rpm if you want to upgrade only rpms 
that are installed on your system. The F flag does not install the 
program if it is not already installed on the system. The functionality 
of rpm should sort the install order and resolve the dependacies with 
the whole pool of rpms in one directory.
If you want to install all of the rpms you built from source, run rpm 
-Uvh *.rpm from within the directory that contains all the rpms. This 
should allow rpm to resolve dependacies and package install order.

Giving rpm the wildcard symbol ensures that rpm will see all of the pool 
and do its best to sort out everything. Giving rpm just a certain 
filename patern will only have rpm try to resolve from the filename 
patern that was given as the argument. (gn*.rpm will only choose/resolve 
from rpms with gn something in the names. *.rpm will use all packages 
available.)

Jim




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