From: kastus@tsoft.com Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:58:38 -0800 Message-ID: <20001219155838.A1852@fizia.local> Subject: Re: [SLE] Automatic update of already installed packages On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:19:48PM +0100, P.C. Uiterlinden wrote:
My system is SuSE 6.4 and I want to apply all the updates available in ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/. I've already copied this whole tree to my hard disk. The problem is that I only want updates of already installed packages. If I would do something like:
rpm -Uhv $(find
-type f -name '*.rpm') then *all* packages would be installed, in stead of updating only already installed packages.
Neither YaST nor rpm seems to provide the functionality I'm looking for. Am I overlooking the obvious, or what?
YaST shows you what packages are installed already. When you select Install Packages, then select directory, the packages in your directory which are present in your system will be marked with o (i.e. other version of the package installed). Of course, this is a manual procedure. I don't know any automatic way to do it. You may check existence of the package with rpm -qa |grep <package-name> -Kastus
Paul.
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