[Yum] How to get yum to read package names from a file

Alex Eskin alexeskin at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 15 18:39:00 UTC 2004


Sorry, in fact I tried "cat foo | xargs yum install"
That fails because now yum's stdin is redirected to foo,
and it cannot ask for confirmation.


--- Satish Balay <balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Alex Eskin wrote:
> 
> > I tried   "xargs foo | yum install" 
> 
> cat foo | xargs yum install
> 
> Satish
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