My apologies it does just that - my error was that I had downloaded the tarballs
and did the old 'rpm -bt xxx.tar.gz' on them. For some reason, probably naming
conventions, the update tool didn't 'see' them. Oh boy, it's been a long week!
Muzza.
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, Anton Graham wrote:
> Submitted 07-Jun-00 by Muzza:
> > Unfortunately Helix doesn't check your system first, it just presents you with a
> > list of upgrades that are available and it's up to you to remember what you
> > have already got. They do 'date' them though so that's not too difficult. But
> > yeah, that would be a very nice feature.
> > Muzza.
>
> Actually, the helix-update package *does* check your system first. It
> compares the version numbers available on the site with the ones in
> your database of installed rpms.
>
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