Hi all,

I am currently trying to upgrade over 100 rpms on multiple Red Hat servers. Whenever I try to do a rpm -u /packages/*.rpm i recieve a failed dependencies error on the very first rpm. I know that I can go though each rpm one by one and trace each dependency but that will take forever. Is there a way to skip these errors? I know the -nodeps command for rpm but I dont want to screw something up but running all of these rpms on -nodeps

Yes, you install the package with yum, and let it solve the dependencies for you.

Of course, if you're not paying for RedHat support...good luck. You won't have access to their repositories, or even the packages to manually solve the dependencies.

ah yea i forgot to mention that these boxes are in a secluded lab and are not able to connect to the internet. YUM isnt an option :/ . Surprising enough though we do have Red Hat support haha

If you have inserted a RHEL CD and are trying to upgrade from it..

1) Define a new repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/RHELCD.repo it should look similar to:

---------------
[RHELCD]
name=RHELCD
baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom
gpgcheck=0
enabled=0
---------------

2) Run `yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=RHELCD update`

That will treat your CD like a repository and update any package applicable while solving dependencies.

This looks like it should work. I am just wondering. Can you set this to a directory instead of the cdrom? I dont see why not but I am also not very fluent in linux.

Sure...the /mnt/cdrom is only a directory. Make one, and copy the contents of the CD/DVD to it. If you do it from a central NFS share, you can just copy it once, and let all the boxes hit it.

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my repo file looks like such


[patches]
name=patches
baseurl=file:/packages/rhn-packages
gpgcheck=0
enabled=0


ok so here is the error I recieve when I attempt to use yum.


redhat /]# yum --disablerep=* --enablerepo=patches update
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
file:///packages/rhn-packages/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/packages/rhn-packages/repodata/repomd.xml'
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: patches. Please verify its path and try again

it looks like its looking for this repomd.xml but I dont have that / dont know what that is.

any help would be greatly appreciated

bump

Instead of bumping your own thread, why don't you call RedHat and use the support you're paying for, since you're in a hurry?
The repomd.xml file tells things what you've got in that repository. Lots of docs on Google to tell you how to set up your own repository, and index the files:
http://www.webmo.net/support/yum_repository.html

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Type `rhn_register` and fill out your license data, then `yum update`.

...except that the OP posted previously that these servers were in a secured environment, and didn't have access to the net.