[Yum] How to get yum to read package names from a file
Jim McConnell
jim at mcconnell.net
Sun Feb 15 22:44:31 UTC 2004
> > #!/bin/bash
> > for rpmfile in `cat foo`
> > do
> > yum install $rpmfile
> > done
>
> that will be VERY VERY VERY slow.
Yes, it certainly would be. I should've attempted to do that prior to
posting. (/me makes a mental note to do that in the future)
> for rpmfile in `cat foo`
> do
> mylist="$mylist $rpmfile"
> done
> yum install $mylist
For that matter, let's forgo the loop entirely:
mylist=`cat foo`
yum install $mylist
(The above worked happily on FC1, w/ yum 2.0.4, and bash.)
-Jim
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