Updating Linux from an older to newer version

Doesnt RH have an UPDATE function which checks to see which packages you have
installed and then only replaces those packages with a more current version,
if available?

On Wednesday 21 August 2002 13:32, you wrote:
> I have some Red Hat Linux 7.2 machines and I would like to update them to
> 7.3. I know that this can be done with the install program, but is it
> technically possible to just manually use rpm to upgrade all of the
> packages on a system? Theoretically this might just be "rpm -Fvh *" in a
> directory with all of the new packages.
>
> These are pretty Spartan server machines with no gui and a defined list of
> packages. And I would like to limit downtime. Is there any merit to
> manually updating all packages?
>
> Brian
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