On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 10:09 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:37:43 -0400, > Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 09:36 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > Until the kernel gets changed to allow larger command lines (which might > > > be pretty soon) it would be nice if rpm had a way to read in the list of > > > files to process via standard input or a file. I used to have problems > > > doing rpm -Fvh *.rpm when the number of rpms got to be very large. xargs > > > won't work because much of the time several updates need to be done at > > > the same time. > > > > IIRC, a file listing paths to packages should just work already. > > Do you know what option is used for that? I don't see a way to do that > described in the man page. (In particular the -f option is not for a file > with a list of rpm names, bhut rather the package(s) that own a particular > file.) Just give the manifest file in place of where you'd give teh list of rpm names Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
