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

[Ron Stodden]

Ed Wilts wrote:

> Exactly - that's why I use freshen.  You need to watch for the extra
> packages, like when a single package splits into two,  manually.  rpm -Uvh
> will also install packages that weren't installed before so unless you want
> to install EVERYTHING, don't do this.  My method uses a lot less disk space
> and tests the packages that I need or want to test.  Why break my system
> installing packages that I have no need for or start up a gazillion daemons,
> some of which could have security holes?

Better to use -Uvh but only download what you want to install using
the exclude-file facility of rsync.

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Regards,

Ron. [au]