-----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 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 > xargs -a ~/billspackagelist yum install -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIreTIqbQrVW3JyMQRAmU2AJ9gTqZWGDVWFHnku04hps2/1Kye7ACdE/Ab EjqdHG1mPoPXjc/n2x5XKUg= =c81w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list