Chuck Bearden
How do I go about upgrading the 6.3 base system with the files found in the 6.3 updates hierarchy of a SuSE mirror? I'm assuming that simply using 'rpm -Uvh' on a running system with base packages would be a bad idea,
Actually, that's not such a bad idea, but you'd have to reboot the machine for the updates to take effect if you're talking about core packages.
but when I copy all the updates to a prepared directory, and tell YaST to use that directory as the source of updates, it claims that my base packages are all up to date, showing the version numbers for the installed packages, rather than for the new ones. YaST finds the directory containing the a1/ ap1/, etc. files--it just doesn't take account of their version numbers.
Which is what I meant to get at in the post you drudged up ;). It doesn't work. You have to do it by hand. -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions jpennington@atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x121 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/