[Yum] How to get yum to read package names from a file
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun Feb 15 23:01:02 UTC 2004
> 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.)
>
so something I talked about a while ago, implemented and never released
was a yum kickstart-like thing.
it used xml to describe the transaction you wanted
so you did things like
install foo
remove bar
update baz*
and then at the end yum would perform the transaction as one unit,
rather than as 3 separate transactions.
I never released it b/c it was godawful ugly the way it was implemented
and I needed to work on other pieces of the infrastructure to really
make it less ugly.
I'm working on this parts now.
-sv
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