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Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my machine with our customized repository. I'd say about 95% of the patches are being installed, but there are about 5 rpms that aren't being ...
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    Post fou4s: not installing certain patches

    Hello,

    I'm trying to upgrade my machine with our customized repository. I'd say about 95% of the patches are being installed, but there are about 5 rpms that aren't being upgraded when there are upgrades available for it in our repository.

    For example, I'm trying to upgrade our file-*rpm.

    # rpm -qa | grep file-
    file-4.07-48.5


    And these are the rpms in our repository to update it:
    # ls | grep file-
    file-4.07-48.8.i586.patch.rpm
    file-4.07-48.8.i586.rpm
    file-4.09-3.2.i586.patch.rpm
    file-4.09-3.2.i586.rpm
    file-4.09-3.5.i586.patch.rpm
    file-4.09-3.5.i586.rpm


    After running fou4s, I found this in the output:
    Checking file: 4.07-48.8 [security, 195389b]
    Using arch i586 instead of i586 for file
    Not processing file-4.07-48.8.i586.patch.rpm (newer version already found).


    I then run this same command and get the same results (nothing was updated):

    # rpm -qa | grep file-
    file-4.07-48.5


    All I really need for this machine is the upgrade to version 4.07-48.8, but why is this not even installing any of the newer versions found? The permissions are fine for the remote files and I'm using the following command to install the patches:

    "fou4s -u"

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    I figured it out. Apparently these patches need to be installed using interactive mode ("--interactive"). I used the --interactive option and it just prompts me if I'm sure I want to install this patch. Is there anyway to assume yes so that it will install automatically? I've tried --force and -a.

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