update rpms

[Stuart Sears]

Mike Vanecek wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:02:46 +0100, Stuart Sears wrote
> 
>>Nabin Limbu wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have downloaded the latest rpms of most of the packages that have been 
> 
> installed in 
> 
>>>my server. Now how can I upgrade all the packages instead of repeatedly 
> 
> upgrading 
> 
>>>one by one and checking for dependencies for so many packages? Is there 
> 
> any way?
> 
> 
>>you could try:
>>
>>cd /dir/with/rpms
>>
>>rpm -ivh kernel-2* (if you have downloaded and wish to update kernels)
>>
>>rpm -Fvh *.rpm (which will only upgrade the packages you already 
>>have installed).
>>
>>the easiest way by far would have been (originally) to have 
>>installed the new updates via RHN with up2date -uf
> 
> 
> How would one do this with RH 9 since RHN for RH 9 is past EOL? I.e., install 
> fresh RH 9 - then how to apply all the applicable updated rpms in the RH 9 
> ftp updates directory?

you can also manage this with yum and apt4rpm - the fedoralegacy project
http://www.fedoralegacy.org
has complete destructions for setting this up.

yum and apt are available from many places but the main sources I tend 
to use are
http://freshrpms.net
http://dag.wieers.com

both apt and yum manage dependencies for you.

AFAICT in fedora core 2 up2date just runs yum in the background.

HTH

Stuart

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> 
>>if you are installing updated versions of pkgs with new dependencies 
>>you may have to find the deps as well. I tend to keep an install 
>>tree on my server under /var/ftp/pub and share it by nfs.
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