On Mandrake's website, for each rpm update, it states to use rpm -Fvh
*.rpm
If you use that for a large quantity of rpm files, as I just tested, it
works just fine.
rpm -Fvh *.rpm
Thanks
> 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
>
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