Where can I donwload updates for RH ES 3?

[gcazian]

I don't want to use the up2date utility, I want to be able to download any updates via ftp or some other means. Is this possible?

 

[lgarner]

Try ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/3ES/

 

[gcazian]

Thanks. I take it that RedHat offers no single package that will update the entire system?

 

[lgarner]

That's what up2date does. That's the only offering like that that I know of. Is there a problem with up2date?

 

[flugh]

I'm on Fedora Core 2, but '[tt]up2date --help[/tt] shows:
[tt]
-d, --download download packages only, even if configuration says to install
[/tt]
Try 'up2date -d'. I'm betting the rpms will be saved in /var/lib/rpm or close to it.

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JBR

 

[gcazian]

I took lgarner's advice and download the updates on ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/3AS/en/os. I noticed that these rpm files have 'src' in the filenames. I updated my system with these rpm files, but when I do rpm -qa, I notice that the rpms are still on the old versions.

Is there something I am not doing correctly?

TIA

 

[mseth]

src" means they are SOURCE CODE. you'll have to compile them yourself. most likely, they got unpacked to /usr/src/some-program-name

 

[gcazian]

Whoops...Thanks for that. Will the rpms for RH 9 work on AS 3 then?