Hi Seth,
we have done our needed functionality in a python script named preyum.py
usage: preyum [-i] [-m mailaddress] file
i - install packages listed in file but not currently installed
m - mail installed packages not in file to address
without this option the names are written to stderr
It does a yum list installed and then some kind of diff to get the
packages needed installing. Ok - this is what we need at the moment.
Thank you for your answer.
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, seth vidal wrote:
> > yum stops after the first package with ... is installed and is the latest
> > version, but there could be a package not installed later in this list. Is
> > there an option to handle the full list, so it can found the packages
> > which need realy instalation? Could we have an option like
> > yum -f <pkglist> install
> > and/or
> > yum -l install $LIST # or # yum -l -f <pkglist> install
> > to say "try the hole list to install"
> > or is ther another/better way to handle such behavior?
>
>
> so the answer to this is sorta two parts:
>
> 1. I've considered adding a -t option to the install/erase/update
> command line to let the processes be "tolerant" of errors in the
> request.
>
> so if you request to install glibc and it's already installed then the
> installer will be tolerant of you and not yell at you about it/exit.
>
> 2. the script-style install is something we discussed on this list
> before. And I'm planning on doing - however, I'm not not planning on
> doing it for yum 1.0.X - it's just not in the cards considering how
> soon-to-dead rhl 7.3 or any rpm 4.0.4-based distro is.
>
> those are my thoughts.
> -sv
>
>
>
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~Guenther Fischer
