Re: Using rpmfind to find rpm updates

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From: John Newbigin (jn@it.swin.edu.au)
Date: Fri May 11 2001 - 10:18:04 EDT

After adding the autoupgradeURL entry to the config file things started
happening but there are other problems as you can see from the output below.
Perhaps someone could help me with the error and perhaps explain:
- why db3-utils and db3-devel are included when they is not installed on the
machine
- how to prevent the rpm command from being run automaticly.
- can I add more autoupgradeURL's for things like the powertools?

I would also still like to be able to use
rpmfind --upgrade samba
and have it return the packages appropriate for RH6.2, now it lists about 30
RPM's from 6.2, 6.2 powertools, 7.0 and 7.1

On a side note, is the server side of up2date available GPL?

Thanks
John.

[root@timmy /etc]# rpmfind --autoupgrade
Cannot read history from /root/.rpmfinddir/autoupgradeHistory :
/root/.rpmfinddir/db3-utils-3.1.17-4.6x.i386.rpm: gpg OK
/root/.rpmfinddir/db3-devel-3.1.17-4.6x.i386.rpm: gpg OK
/root/.rpmfinddir/samba-common-2.0.8-0.6.i386.rpm: gpg OK
/root/.rpmfinddir/samba-client-2.0.8-0.6.i386.rpm: gpg OK
/root/.rpmfinddir/samba-2.0.8-0.6.i386.rpm: gpg OK
/root/.rpmfinddir/minicom-1.83.1-1.0.6x.i386.rpm: gpg OK
/root/.rpmfinddir/logrotate-3.5.2-0.6.i386.rpm: gpg OK
executing: rpm -U /root/.rpmfinddir/samba-client-2.0.8-0.6.i386.rpm
/root/.rpmfinddir/db3-devel-3.1.17-4.6x.i386.rpm
/root/.rpmfinddir/db3-utils-3.1.17-4.6x.i386.rpm
/root/.rpmfinddir/samba-2.0.8-0.6.i386.rpm
/root/.rpmfinddir/minicom-1.83.1-1.0.6x.i386.rpm
/root/.rpmfinddir/logrotate-3.5.2-0.6.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        samba-common = 2.0.8 is needed by samba-client-2.0.8-0.6
        samba-common = 2.0.8 is needed by samba-2.0.8-0.6
Done: status code 1536
Error installing: rpm returned 1536
Please fix this and restart rpmfind

Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:55:59PM +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
> >
> > I have lots of RedHat 6.2 boxes and I am looking at a way to use rpmfind
> > as a replacement for up2date. Basically I want rpmfind to tell me about
> > the updates for RH6.2. I have played with the config file for ages but
> > I keep getting results for redhat 5.2 or 6.1, never 6.2 updates.
> >
> > I looked at the RDF data and it seems that there is no distribution
> > version number which could be the source of the problem but surely there
> > must be a way to identify the exact set of RPM's that you want to query.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to do this?
>
> You can try the --autoupgrade option
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html#Autoupgrad
>
> sorry not much time to elaborate now,
>
> Daniel
>
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