up2date from rawhide

James Olin Oden joden at malachi.lee.k12.nc.us
Tue Aug 19 18:40:38 UTC 2003


On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Thiago Vinhas de Moraes wrote:

> 
> Dude, but it will install all RPMS downloaded from rawhide right? It will
> not just get and update the rpms I have installed on my system.
>
Look closely, he is using the -F option (freshen) which only updates the
rpms that are currently installed.

Cheers...james 
> But thanks anyway.
> 
> Regards,
> Thiago
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Vanco, Donald" <VANCOD at PIOS.com>
> To: <rhl-beta-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:35 PM
> Subject: RE: up2date from rawhide
> 
> 
> > Not really up2date, but I use the following script:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > export RSYNC_PASSWORD=XXXXXXXXXX
> >
> REMOTE_DIR="rsync://beta@ftp.beta.redhat.com/beta/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i
> > 386/RedHat/RPMS/"
> > LOCAL_DIR=/home/RedHat/rawhide/RPMS/
> >
> > mirror() {
> >         rsync -LvvH --delete --stats --progress --recursive
> > --exclude=headers --size-only $REMOTE_DIR $LOCAL_DIR
> > }
> > mirror
> >
> > rpm -Fvh /home/RedHat/rawhide/RPMS/*.rpm
> >
> >
> > ...viewer discretion advised...
> > You'll need to change the mirror and password, but you get the
> > idea....
> > Works quite nicely for archiving updates as well....
> >
> > Don
> >
> >
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