On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 10:06:57 +0200, Chadley Wilson <chadley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings > > Me again and my script, > > OK so part of scripting a fix for cdrom and udev and bla bla, I thought is > would be cool to also script some rpms to save time, > > In the script I have some line like this > > rpm -Uvh $packagedir/package.rpm > rpm -Ivh $packagedir/package.rpm > > theres about 70 packages in the dir. > The problem I am experiencing is if I upgrade a package in the dir, the > version changes. and the script must be updated, > Now for dependancy solving I have to install them in a certian order. > > Unfortunately I can't use up2date, apt , yume etc for this as The network that > does the installs is isolated and has not internet access, As you can imagine > on a PC prodction line we also do windows, and the risk of a virus getting > onto brand new systems in too high so we are disconnected from the inet. > > The PC builder 30 of them scp a folder from the server an execute the script > which patches fixes install etc > > is there some way to tell the script not to look at the version number in > other words: > this one is normal and must be updated on change of package > rpm -Uvh a52dec_0.7.4-7.1.fc3.fr_i386.rpm > > This line is what I am after but am unsure of how to go about it > ie if I replace the rpm in the package dir with a newer version I don't need > to update the script line. > > rpm -Uvh a52dec<version>.rpm Use an asterisk '*' for wild card replacement, e.g. # rpm -Uvh a52dec*.rpm > I hope this makes, I am confusing myself here! :0 > > -- > Chadley Wilson
