updating redhat systems in a secure environment
Mark Parker For the part you describe:
why not put the CD-ROM in the drive, mount it, get root permission, change into the appropriate directory on the CD-ROM, and just run
rpm -Fvh *.rpm
Here is some documentation on that option:
Freshening a package is similar to upgrading one.
RPM's freshen option checks the versions of the packages specified on the command line against the versions of packages that have already been installed on your system. When a newer version of an already-installed package is processed by RPM's freshen option, it is upgraded to the newer version. However, RPM's freshen option does not install a package if no previously-installed package of the same name exists.
RPM's freshen option works for single packages or a group of packages. If you have just downloaded a large number of different packages, and you only want to upgrade those packages that are already installed on your system, freshening does the job. If you use freshening, you do not have to delete any unwanted packages from the group that you downloaded before using RPM.
In this case, issue the following command:
rpm -Fvh *.rpm
That should be a red flag to you - if there are all those dependencies, then a) you don't want to remove it, at least not without removing all those other programs (and all the...
RPM automatically upgrades only those packages that are already installed.
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