William Case wrote: > Does yum have a 'file' switch or option like most other programs dealing > with several pieces of data? eg. rsync --files-from /where/ever. > > I just re-installed Fedora 9 and I probably will be installing F10 in a > couple of months. I keep a list of 15 -20 packages that I regularly > have to re-install right after the Fedora core installation. > > It would be nice and easy to just 'yum install --from-file > ~/billspackagelist' or after a disaster 'yum install > --from-file /backup/billspackagelist'
Well, there’s the Unix approach: cat ~/billspackagelist | xargs yum install which will install each package listed in ~/billspackagelist (from yum repositories). You may also want to investigate yum localinstall Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | We still have enough spare cardboard sitting around to aprilcottage.co.uk | send a bus by Parcelforce, although not enough wrapping | to be sure they wouldn't deliver it broken into two | pieces. -- Alan Cox -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list