[plug] RH updates availability?

[Paul Dean]

Hya,

Check first to see if the packages have been installed.
Like 'rpm -qi LPRng' this is the latest package been for lprng should
read LPRng-3.8.9-4.
If the rpm database reports this then do 'lpq -V' for the version that
is actually running.
If not then the package hasn't been installed. From memory up2date stores
the rpm's in '/var/spool/up2date' for the default config, or run 
'up2date-config' to find out.
Have a look in there for your downloaded packages.

Then ftp into ftp.iinet.net.au and goto
'/linux/redhat/updates/7.3/en/os/i386/' and compare the rpm files they
have there to what you have in your machine.
iiNet mirror from RedHat.
If you don't have all the files then you can dl them from there, that's
what I do, faster than up2date, then you can update your packages
manually with 'rpm -Fvh *rpm' while your in the directory that you dled
the files to.

Or you get really funky and use mirror to mirror the directories via
crond every so often, once a day perhaps.

Hope this helps.


On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Bret Busby wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, Phil.
> 
> I retried again, and, this time it told me that the system was fully
> updated, and that "No new packages are needed".
> 
> A dialogue box told me that the system was currently running kernel
> 2.4.18-3, and that a newer version was installed (2.4.18-5), and that I
> should reboot as soon as possible, to test the newer kernel. Rebooting
> shows the kernel as being 2.4.18-3, at the login prompt, so I do not know
> what happened to the newer kernel that showed as having been installed.
> 
> I also again get the same dialogue box, that shows that the kernel that is
> running, is older than the newest installed kernel. It must have hidden
> the newer kernel from the bootup, or, not really installed the newer
> packages, or something.
> 
> I am now confused. I do not know what up2date has done to the system.
> 
> 

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