Hey would it be possible to do something like new_rpms=`ls -1 fc3/RPMS/` old_rpms=`rpm -qa` for i in $new_rpms do new_rpm=`echo $i | cut -f1 -d-` for j in $old_rpms do old_rpm=`echo $j | cut -f1 -d-` if $new_rpm=$old_rpm then rpm -Uvh $i fi done done and upgrade everything to FC3 without doing any reboot?