updates

[Ryan Golhar]

But to download all the packages first, how can I do that automatically?
I guess I can use -d, but the machines are up to date right now.

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Ryan Golhar
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 11:12 PM
To: golharam at umdnj.edu; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: updates


On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:47:55PM -0400, Ryan Golhar wrote:
> Is there a way to automatically download updated rpm packages?  I'm 
> about to rebuild a bunch of machines and I have the outdates packages 
> from the CD.  I don't want the systems to redownload all the updated 
> packages.

up2date -k <CD directory>

The -k option tells up2date to search that directory first for updates.
You'll still contact the RHN servers to get the package list, but if the
updated package is found in your pre-specified directory, it will be
installed from there.

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