Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> metoo wrote:
>> i have installed fedora core 4 and i want to upgrade but since i
>> didn't have a fast internet connection i obtained a DVD with all the
>> latest upgrade packages. what is the correct way to upgrade using
>> this set of RPM's ?
>> i tried rpm -Fvh * but it didn't work and when i try to rpm -Fvh on
>> individual packages i get dependency issues.
>
> Make a local copy of them on your local disk, and run "yum-arch" on that
> local copy to sort out what the most recent versions of things are along
> with their architecture dependencies and package dependencies.
>
> Then configure your yum, in /etc/yum.repors.d, to point at that local
> repository instead of the net.
>

But why didn't -F work? It's nice to know some clever and complicated
way to work around the problem, but it's also good to understand why the
obvious fix doesn't work. It also takes a lot of disk, a lot of time,
and requires doing and undoing config changes.

What did he (and I) miss about the way "rpm -F" works? Other than "*"
should have been something like "*i686*.rpm" or he should have used
check-update over the net to get a list of what he needed, perhaps.

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