> For that matter, let's forgo the loop entirely: > > mylist=`cat foo` > yum install $mylist > > (The above worked happily on FC1, w/ yum 2.0.4, and bash.) > so something I talked about a while ago, implemented and never released was a yum kickstart-like thing. it used xml to describe the transaction you wanted so you did things like install foo remove bar update baz* and then at the end yum would perform the transaction as one unit, rather than as 3 separate transactions. I never released it b/c it was godawful ugly the way it was implemented and I needed to work on other pieces of the infrastructure to really make it less ugly. I'm working on this parts now. -sv
