On Wednesday 17 January 2001 08:01 pm, you wrote:
> Is there a way to do a mass update of my RPMs? ie download them all and
> just do rpm -Uvh * -nodep ? (or whatever that command would end up being)
>
> <EOL>
> Tib
sounds like you've got the general idea, although I don't think I'd do the
--nodeps thing unless you're reasonably sure that nothing of any consequence
is going to suffer from it. I've attempted to the upgrade twice that way and
ended up torching the partition tables both times I did it.
If you can get by with doing the --test without any troubles then the install
will go off without a hitch.
rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm
that will run thru a test install of the packages as though a real install
was happening. Only thing different is that it's not actually going to
install anything. What it will do is test the dependencies to see if there
are any problems and if there are it will report them. That way you can fix
any dependency problems and not risk breaking your machine being in a hurry
to fource an upgrade.
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
Linus Torvalds
