Re: [TCLUG:18338] openssh upgrade...

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

andy@theasis.com wrote:
> 
> > > I'm considering doing a live update of my Alpha running RH6.0 to 6.2 via
> > > FTP just to show all the debian bitches whats what. ;) Just need a
> > > little script to rpm -qa and -Uvh every package off a given FTP site...
> > > ;)
> >
> > rpm --freshen works real good too.
> 
> yeah, that is, do
>         rpm -Fvh
> instead of
>         rpm -Uvh

Hmm.. how do I use this with FTP without downloading an entire directory
of stuff?

rpm -Fvh ftp://ftp.somewhere.net/pub/path/to/RPMS/*

seems to download everything before trying to install the relevant
packages..  seems kind of silly to me..

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