>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 1:20 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Scully, William P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For both Red Hat and SuSE, is there a way to identify all the pre- and > co-req patches required by (say,) a particular security patch? I mean, > other than doing so the hard way, by "hand", so to speak. > > For z/VM I'd merely ask IBM to ship me the fix, and any pre-, co-, or > if-reqs. I'm looking for something similar for Linux. I realize that > the various "online update" tools will do this for me, but there are > reasons I need to pre-fetch and "stage" on local disk a particular > patch. And I'd like to be certain that I've pre-staged any requisite > fixes too.
Bill, YaST, up2date and rug (SLES10) all have "download but don't install" options that figure out all the pre-reqs and download everything that's needed. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
