Redhat – Difference between yum update and using rpm to install updates

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I am trying to figure out why exactly this isn't working correctly. Currently there is no way supported by yum to set a milestone in time (install all packages up to point in time T). To get around this for our QA purposes, we would like to use the yum-downloadonly plugin. We are able to use the plugin in tandem with yum update to pull down all packages that would be included in the update.

However, when we try to run rpm -ivh *.rpm where all of the files have been downloaded, there are tons of errors about dependencies. If you force it, you end up getting tons of errors on the next boot. Trying to do a yum localinstall produces similar problems.

Is there an easy way to do this that I'm not quite getting? Is there any way to preserve the order to install as yum would do? It's not like I'm missing packages – downloadonly pulls down everything a normal update would, including all dependencies.

Best Answer

After running yum -y update --downloadonly, instead of rpm -ivh *.rpm, try yum localupdate *.rpm.

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Mysql – How to install MariaDB rpms in CentOS 6.4 using rpm (not yum cmd) + handling thesql-libs conflicts

You don't. You use yum so that it handles this situation cleanly. It operates perfectly well offline using RPM packages directly, provided that all the necessary dependencies are available or already installed.

Download the appropriate MariaDB RPMs to your USB stick or DVD-ROM.

yumdownloader MariaDB-client MariaDB-common MariaDB-compat MariaDB-devel MariaDB-server MariaDB-shared

Take your USB stick or DVD-ROM to the target machine and copy them in.

Install them:

yum --disablerepo=* -y install MariaDB-*.rpm

Centos – Why won’t yum install updates

Similar issue - and my fix. I had a problem with memory too, so had to upgrade the memory of the VPS. I then did a yum update - of course got the errors as above. So looked on the failed, and noticed what happen was that Yum installed (well, started to install) the latest coreutils - version 37, whereas I still had bits of 31. So first, removed version 37, then cleaned and then ran yum update again.

That caused the '31' version to be available to be "updated" cleanly. See the work below:

--> Running transaction check
---> Package coreutils.x86_64 0:8.4-31.el6_5.2 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: coreutils = 8.4-31.el6_5.2 for package: coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6_5.2.x86_64
---> Package coreutils.x86_64 0:8.4-37.el6 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6_5.2.x86_64 (@updates)
           Requires: coreutils = 8.4-31.el6_5.2
           Removing: coreutils-8.4-31.el6_5.2.x86_64 (@updates)
               coreutils = 8.4-31.el6_5.2
           Updated By: coreutils-8.4-37.el6.x86_64 (base)
               coreutils = 8.4-37.el6
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

Running yum remove coreutils-libs-8.4-37.el6.x86_64:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package coreutils-libs.x86_64 0:8.4-37.el6 will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved
==============================
========================================================================================

Package                         Arch                    Version                    Repository                  Size
======================================================================================================================
Removing:
 coreutils-libs                  x86_64                  8.4-37.el6                  installed                  5.4 k

Transaction Summary
======================================================================================================================
Remove        1 Package(s)

Installed size: 5.4 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Erasing    : coreutils-libs-8.4-37.el6.x86_64                                                                   1/1 
  Verifying  : coreutils-libs-8.4-37.el6.x86_64                                                                   1/1 

Removed:
  coreutils-libs.x86_64 0:8.4-37.el6                                                                                  

Complete!

Cleaning up using yum clean all:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Cleaning repos: base extras updates
Cleaning up Everything
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors

Doing package list refresh yum update:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Update Process
Determining fastest mirrors
 * base: mirrors.lga7.us.voxel.net
 * extras: mirrors.lga7.us.voxel.net
 * updates: mirror.cc.columbia.edu
base                                                                                           | 3.7 kB     00:00     
base/primary_db                                                                                | 4.6 MB     00:00     
extras                                                                                         | 3.4 kB     00:00     
extras/primary_db                                                                              |  30 kB     00:00     
updates                                                                                        | 3.4 kB     00:00     
updates/primary_db                                                                             | 1.5 MB     00:00     
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package coreutils.x86_64 0:8.4-31.el6_5.2 will be updated
---> Package coreutils.x86_64 0:8.4-37.el6 will be an update
---> Package coreutils-libs.x86_64 0:8.4-31.el6_5.2 will be updated
---> Package coreutils-libs.x86_64 0:8.4-37.el6 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

======================================================================================================================
 Package                          Arch                     Version                       Repository              Size
======================================================================================================================
Updating:
 coreutils                        x86_64                   8.4-37.el6                    base                   3.0 M
 coreutils-libs                   x86_64                   8.4-37.el6                    base                    50 k

Transaction Summary
======================================================================================================================
Upgrade       2 Package(s)

Total download size: 3.1 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): coreutils-8.4-37.el6.x86_64.rpm                                                         | 3.0 MB     00:00     
(2/2): coreutils-libs-8.4-37.el6.x86_64.rpm                                                    |  50 kB     00:00     
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                                                  44 MB/s | 3.1 MB     00:00     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Updating   : coreutils-libs-8.4-37.el6.x86_64                                                                   1/4 
  Updating   : coreutils-8.4-37.el6.x86_64                                                                        2/4 
  Cleanup    : coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6_5.2.x86_64                                                               3/4 
  Cleanup    : coreutils-8.4-31.el6_5.2.x86_64                                                                    4/4 
  Verifying  : coreutils-8.4-37.el6.x86_64                                                                        1/4 
  Verifying  : coreutils-libs-8.4-37.el6.x86_64                                                                   2/4 
  Verifying  : coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6_5.2.x86_64                                                               3/4 
  Verifying  : coreutils-8.4-31.el6_5.2.x86_64                                                                    4/4 

Updated:
  coreutils.x86_64 0:8.4-37.el6                           coreutils-libs.x86_64 0:8.4-37.el6                          

Complete!

-Sup.

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