Re: Upgrading with gnorpm

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

The latest release of gnorpm (version 0.9) has these sort of features.
Just use your favourite mirroring tool to keep a directory on one of your
server machines in sync with either Dax's or the gnome.org RPM updates,
then drag this directory from GMC onto the gnorpm window, and it will
display all those RPMs in a new install window.

Then choose "Only newer packages" from the filter menu, followed by
clicking on the select all button, and then click on upgrade. 
Alternativelyyou could use the command line rpm program.  I think it has
a freshen option or something like that.

There is no support for pointing the install window at an FTP site (like 
you can with grpm) at the moment, but it is on the todo list.

James.

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On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, W. Scott Wilburn wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 	I have several machines with RH 6.0 and am finding it challenging
> to keep up with the RH updates. Is there a simple way to use gnorpm to do
> this without checking the version of each package individually (I always
> forget which machine was upgraded when)? If not, would it be worth
> considering a button to sync everything to the current versions?
> 
> Best regards,
> Scott
> 
> 
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