[TriLUG] up2date

Chris Knowles chrisk at trilug.org
Thu Jan 30 10:31:45 EST 2003


>From the man page:

      ‐d, ‐‐download
        download  packages  only,  do  not install them.  This option is
	provided so that you can override the 	configuration  option  	"Do not
install packages after 	retrieval."  It is mutually exclusive 	with the
‐‐install option.

CJK

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 10:18, Douglas Kojetin wrote:
> Hello All-
> 
> Is there a way to get up2date to *only* download the RPMs to be installed
> and not install them?  Then check to make sure the RPMs are not corrupt, and
> install manually or by running up2date again?
> 
> I've been having a problem where I install RedHat 8.0, run up2date, it
> downloads packages, then after the install process starts, it finds a
> corrupt package, the computer locks up, and when I restart it says I have
> corrupt inodes and to run fsck -- then it goes bonkers.
> 
> Thanks,
> Doug
> 
> 
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