That's what we do in our cronjob. We have a little mini repository, carefully controlled, and we do a yum install '*' (the ' ' is so our shell doesn't expand it, I didn't try the \) Troy seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 17:58, Erik Williamson wrote: > >>Hi Seth/All, >> >>the addition of 'yum list new' has caught my interest - is there any >>plan to implement an option where I can install any packages in a >>repository that aren't currently installed on the local machine? I'm >>lazy - this information can be gleaned out of the output from 'list >>new', but I don't trust myself. >> > > > > well, sorta. > > if you're a masochist you could do yum install \* > > (the \ is used so your shell doesn't expand it first) > > > that would kinda be nuts. > > but it should work. > > it would match any available program and install it. > > if they don't conflict it _should_ work - though in a stock rhl7.3 stuff > conflicts :) > > -sv > -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson dawson@xxxxxxxx (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/OSS CSI Group __________________________________________________