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Subject: Re: [SLE] "Reusing" RPM patches
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 23:58:56 +1000
From: Basil Chupin
Hi Basil,
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:59, you wrote:
I update my system almost on a daily basis with YOU on-line feature. The RPM patches end up in the /var/lib/....../8.0/<various> sub-directories (I think :-)). I want to apply these patches to another copy of the SuSE V8.0 system (my testbed) and not have to go thru the whole on-line update process again.
Could someone please point me to the place where I can find information on how I can achieve this or give me an outline of how to do this. I've looked in the SDB but can't even find what the command line to apply one of these patches looks like (eg, is it rpm -Uvh --nodeps <name>.rpm or is it without the --nodeps?).
Try to get all of them into one directory, and then as root run rpm -Fvh *.rpm
--nodeps tells the machine to ignore dependency issues. It's better to resolve those issues than ignore them - so if you get the complaint:
'fu-version-1 needs bar-version-1' and you have a patch to upgrade fu to version 2, try to find the patch that brings bar up to version 2 (or the next available version) and then run rpm -Fvh * over the directory again. F is preferred here to U because it 'freshens' installed progs - but if you happen to have a supernumary patch in there for some rpm that isn't in fact on your machine, then it will not bother trying to install the patch.
HTH Fergus
I can see in the sub-directories that the patches are dated (according to the date they were downloaded and applied) so I guess that one condition for applying the patches would be in date order otherwise an earlier patch may overwrite a later patch which corrected the first one - or am I misunderstanding things? Or can i put all the patches into the one directory and then apply (say) RPM -Uvh *.rpm to the lot?
Any help gratefully appreciated (as I would like to re-install v8.0, recompile the kernel and then apply the patches).
Cheers.
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Fergus, I diligently followed your instructions but all I got was screens and screens and screens of error messages stating, "<X> conflicts between attempted installs of <Y> and <Y-1>". Why do such things always happen to me when simple things like the above update works without hassles for others? <Sigh> What's the magic setup I forgot to do? :-) Cheers.