[5105] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Install and update 4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Moulder)
Tue Nov 19 01:27:08 1996
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 13:13:33 +1100
From: Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Dirk Laurie's message of Fri, 8 Nov 1996 15:50:04 +0200 (SAT)
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This works, but is wasteful:
Install what you want. Boot the new system, go into the
updates directory and rpm -U *
All the packages in the updates directory will be installed.
What you need is an option on rpm that will update only if the
package is already installed. Or one of those awk-ward scripts
that I have never been able to write.
for i in *; do if rpm -q `rpm -qp $i`; then rpm -U $i; fi; done
(Untested.)
Redirect stderr and/or stdout if you like, but I'd prefer the chance
to see what packages it did and didn't install.
pjm.
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