Re: Yup: minimal list / upgrade?


Subject: Re: Yup: minimal list / upgrade?
From: Nik (nik@xdv.org)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 10:19:50 MDT


> Correspondingly, how do I tell yup to:
>
> Update those packages currently installed for which a later version
> is available
>
> After installing YDL 2.0 from the CD, I did a laborious hand comparison
> involving importing the output of 'yup list' and 'rpm --list' into
> Moft Excel to come up with the 24 packages for which a later version is
> available, out of the 211 packages installed on my box, out of 956 pack-
> ages available on the mirror site.
>
> There's gotta be an easier way.

from yup man page ->

yup list updates
              list all packages with updates available in the yup
repository.

does this do what you want?+
 i would try it, but yup wont run with a corrupt rpm database :/



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