On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:58:22 -0800, Colin Brace <cb@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Something like this on the command line: > > $ rpm -qa | cut -d"." -f1 | cut -d"-" -f1 > > could be piped to a file. Is there a way of feeding it back in again? I > don't see anything obvious on the man page under the install options. I usually just cat the file on the yum command line. Even a few thousand packages can be specified this way. Something like: yum install -y `cat file_with_package_list` You'll still need to do some checking after getting most upgraded, to handle stuff that was dropped or obsoleted and make sure you got everything you want. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
