RE: [Cooker] How to set up a cooker system and keeping it current ?

[Andrej Borsenkow]

> > No, that won't work.   rpm -Uvh *.rpm will.    Freshen will ignore
> > new rpms that were not there before.
>
> Exactly - that's why I use freshen.  You need to watch for the extra
> packages, like when a single package splits into two,  manually.

You may consider urpmi. It has exactly the task to check dependencies and
install them if needed. So,

urpmi foo

is basically the same as

rpm -Fvh foo + rpm -ivh for additional packages foo depends upon.

urpmi is using separate database that has to be updated every time you update
your mirror.

-andrej