On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:04, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2001 10:06 pm, you wrote:
> > 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
>
> What is the "F" for?
Freshen, it goes through all the files matching the wildcard (in this case
any rpms in the directory) and if the RPM is newer than the one installed on
your system it installs it.. It's handy for when you've got a directory full
of RPM's and don't know which ones are Upgrades (like an FTP archive for
example), oh thats another thing, it also works over FTP/HTTP and (from
memory but I can't find it documented) NFS...very handy if your mirroring an
archive and then running an FTP server on your network which you can upgrade
all the workstations on.
For less ambitious setups...you can download all your RPM's to one spot and
then use Freshen to update without specifying which RPM's your interested in
(or can't be bothered).
The gotcha is (of course there is one) that RPM dosn't handle dependancy
problems that well and you can run the command and just get a screenfull of
broken dependancy links thrown back at you for your trouble
Hope this helps
Andrew
