On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 03:06, Chadley Wilson 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 > > > I hope this makes, I am confusing myself here! :0 > Chad, Couple of suggestions. 1) Have you looked at -F as an option for rpm? I have an errata directory that I carry around. Problem is, an rpm -Uvh $erratadir/*.rpm would not only upgrade everything it would also install everything else from that directory on me. After I do an interactive or kickstart install, I simply point to that directory and do an rpm -Fvh ${erratadir}/*.rpm 2) This leads me to my second thought. Why not just put a wildcard in for the version number? For example, rpm -Uvh $packagedir/packagename-*.arch.rpm. Remember that with rpm you can specify multiple filenames (either with a wildcard or put a space in between names). Then during the "pre-flight check" rpm will resequence based on pre-req needs. HTH, --Rob