Adrian Sevcenco wrote on 05/13/2010 08:49 AM:
Hi! I have an directory full with rpms that are installed on some machines.. what is the best way to update those rpms to the latest version? are there more optimal approaches then searching for each rpm names in an update repo and download one by one?
Your question is not very clear. Do you mean that you have just a local directory of RPMS or that you maintain a local repo? If just a directory then you may want to read:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreateLocalRepos http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreateLocalMirror
In either case, it you want to see what updates are available from a particular repo, say "reponame":
yum --disablerepo * --enablerepo reponame check-update
You could then download and put RPMS in your local repo as desired.
Phil