On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 18:37, Michael Hart wrote: > A few months ago I downloaded all the updates and loaded them onto a CD. > Now a colleague want to set up a system off line (that may go online > to a bandwidth limited account later). > > What I want to do is loan him my CD and have, say, yum use the CD to > update his system? > > Alternatively is ther some sort of shell script that I can use that will > check that he has a particular package installed then upgrade it if > necessary. > > Does rpm -U -all check packages first? > > Michael > Michael, rpm -i (installs the package if not already installed) rpm -U (upgrades/installs the package) rpm -F (freshens only if the package is installed) So, most likely, assuming all the .rpm package files are in a common "errata" directory, simply cd to that directory and perform an "rpm -Fvh *.rpm" (without the quotes, of course). The v is to make it verbose in its output, and the h displays hash marks to show progress. HTH, --Rob
