[lug] Regarding use of krud2date to update KRUD from month to month

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:26:43PM -0700, BOF wrote:
>First, I want to update only the packages that I have installed --- I do 
>not want to any new ones unless I choose to do so.

krud2date will try to update the packages you have on your system.  If it
installs any new packages that's because they're *REQUIRED* by one of the
packages that's being updated.  For example, at one point a newer glibc
required a glibc-common package which didn't used to be installed.

>Second, I will upgrade the kernel manually, using rpm, if needed. (The 
>README.KRUD file implies this, if I read it correctly).

If there's a new kernel, krud2date will try doing an "rpm -i" on it, which
makes the new kernel available (but doesn't set it up in
lilo.conf/grub.conf).  In contrast, most other packages it will do an "rpm
-U" of.

>I read the man page for krud2date, but it leaves me confused on what 
>command to issue, particularly since the kernel update .rpm is in the 
>krud2date directory.

Try:

   krud2date -vi

This runs in verbose mode and does the install of new packages.

Sean
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