Re: Non-urgent query re: yum ?

2008-08-22 Thread Mike Chambers
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 16:50 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; 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

Re: Non-urgent query re: yum ?

2008-08-22 Thread William Case
Thanks Björn On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 23:34 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: William Case wrote: It would be nice and easy to just 'yum install --from-file ~/billspackagelist' or after a disaster 'yum install --from-file /backup/billspackagelist' You could always make a little shell script of

Non-urgent query re: yum ?

2008-08-21 Thread William Case
Hi; 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: Non-urgent query re: yum ?

2008-08-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:50:00 -0400 William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does yum have a 'file' switch or option like most other programs dealing with several pieces of data? Yum works off the repository definitions in /etc/yum.repos.d/ You can setup your own repo fairly simply if you have a

Re: Non-urgent query re: yum ?

2008-08-21 Thread Björn Persson
William Case wrote: It would be nice and easy to just 'yum install --from-file ~/billspackagelist' or after a disaster 'yum install --from-file /backup/billspackagelist' You could always make a little shell script of the whole command: #!/bin/sh yum install \ this-package \ that-package \

Re: Non-urgent query re: yum ?

2008-08-21 Thread James Wilkinson
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

Re: Non-urgent query re: yum ?

2008-08-21 Thread Todd Denniston
Tom Horsley wrote, On 08/21/2008 05:07 PM: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:50:00 -0400 William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does yum have a 'file' switch or option like most other programs dealing with several pieces of data? Yum works off the repository definitions in /etc/yum.repos.d/ You can

Re: Non-urgent query re: yum ?

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:34:23 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: William Case wrote: It would be nice and easy to just 'yum install --from-file ~/billspackagelist' or after a disaster 'yum install --from-file /backup/billspackagelist' You could always make a little shell script of the whole

Re: Non-urgent query re: yum ?

2008-08-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Wilkinson wrote: 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