Message-ID: <3A40D2C2.81E7B1D0@ws.tn.tudelft.nl> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:39:46 +0100 From: Erwin de Beus Subject: Re: [SLE] Automatic update of already installed packages "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?

Paul.

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<p>rpm has an update mode (in newer versions it's called freshen). When used it will only update the package if it's already installed and the installed version is older than the update. I use the following to update my SuSE 7.0 machines: #!/bin/bash echo rebuild rpm database .... # I hate broken rpm databases ... rpm --rebuilddb echo "Now updating your system" find . -name "*.i386.rpm" -exec rpm -v -h --freshen {} \; SuSEconfig This is run from the directory where the rpm's are located. This directory can contain subdirectories with rpm's. Regards, Erwin de Beus -- ===================================================================== ing. Erwin de Beus Tel.: + 31 (0)15 27 83248 Delft University of Technology Fax: + 31 (0)15 27 81204 Faculty of Applied Physics e.de.beus@ws.tn.tudelft.nl Thermal and Fluids Science Section http://www.ws.tn.tudelft.nl Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft The Netherlands =====================================================================