Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 03 September 2006 04:21, stephan beal wrote:
> On Sunday 03 September 2006 00:57, Anders Johansson wrote:
> ...
>
> > Get the packages from
> >
> > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/10.1-packagemanagement-update-test/r
> >pm/
> >
> > and update to them. Afterwards, make sure you restart zmd (rczmd
> > restart)
>
> In the i586 directory there are over 50 RPMs. Do you happen to know
> which ones should be installed, and in what order?

Get the ones called .i586.rpm, for example with a command like

wget 
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/10.1-packagemanagement-update-test/rpm/*.i586.rpm

Then do

rpm -Fvh *.rpm

in that directory. This will update only the packages you already have 
installed, and it will handle the order as well

in another mail I saw you did rpm -i, but that is only for installing rpms you 
don't already have installed. Updating is done with either -U or -F (the 
difference is that -U will install packages if you don't already have them 
installed, and -F will only update if you already have them)

I also saw you used --force. Never ever *ever* under *any* circumstances 
use --force

In short, using -i and --force to update rpms is a recipe for disaster