[...] > > Am Samstag, den 21.01.2006, 22:57 -0500 schrieb Michael D. Berger: > > > > > If I type: > > > > yum localupdate /my_rpm_path/* > > > > on a box that has installed only a small subset of that which is > > available in my_rpm_path, will it only update that which is there, > > and not install any of the others? > > > That's what the manpage suggerates. > > > This is not so trivial when it comes to boxes that are not on > > the net. It would also solve a problem I had yesterday, where > > I had trouble updating my second box over the net. > > > I don't know what you mean. > > > Thomas > 1. Boxes that are not on the net have to be uodated by carrying upcates on a CD from a box that is on the net. The files are read on to the box that is not on the net. These files are then local. 2. I have two FC4 boxes on the net. Yesterday, I applied an update successfully to box 1. A few minutes later I tried the same thing on box 2. It failed, reporting a DNS problem. A while later I tried it again, and it failed with some checksum errors. I deleted some files and tried again, and it succeeded. I could have just copied the rpm files from box 1 to box 2, and avoided the net problems. Mike. -- Michael D. Berger m.d.berger@xxxxxxxx
