RE: [TCLUG:1191] Upgrade worries.

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

actually.. redhat is allready working on that problem.. their new rawhide
distro is developing software to check a local redhat mirror, poll it for new
packages, and update stuff for you :)

On 15-Sep-98 UserCx@aol.com wrote:
> I donot know if this is a common problem or if I am going
> about it the wrong way.
> 
> Everytime I need to upgrade some package on a machine
> with RedHat I have to upgrade about 10 more packages. 
> 
> The only way I can seem to do it is to download one see what 
> it needs and keep doing it recursively until I get them all.
> 
> I could always see the pre-reqs on-line make a list and
> download it all but that too is kind of like the above.
> 
> Is there anyway this can be done automatically ? I would like
> to be able to just say upgrade "glib" and every thing that depends
> on it and it depends on get downloaded and installed.
> 
> I upgraded my libc, gtk and glib yesterday and now I cannot
> get gimp to work :(.  I have no option but to get the update to
> gimp now, but then I am afraid that I need to get a whole lot
> of other stuff.  
> 
> I guess I could download the source and build it. But then I need
> to keep doing it each time I upgrade something it depends on and
> that is something that I am not sure I would be happy doing.
> 
> BTW is it possible to get "binary" patches to rpms the same way 
> we can get patches to source ?  Would it be a good idea ?
> 
> thanks,
> sandipan
> 
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Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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