On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 16:50 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > Does yum have a 'file' switch or option like most other programs dealing > with several pieces of data? eg. rsync --files-from /where/ever. > > I just re-installed Fedora 9 and I probably will be installing F10 in a > couple of months. I keep a list of 15 -20 packages that I regularly > have to re-install right after the Fedora core installation. > > It would be nice and easy to just 'yum install --from-file > ~/billspackagelist' or after a disaster 'yum install > --from-file /backup/billspackagelist' > > Maybe there is a way to do it without copying and pasting a long string > of package names and having to check for proper name separation etc. at > the end of 'yum install ...', but I didn't see it. Why not do.. yum localinstall * (where *=path/dir to packages locally you want to install) -- Mike Chambers Fedora Project - Ambassador, Bug Zapper, Tester, User, etc.. mikec302@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
