Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 11:12 -0700, stan wrote:
eg rpm -qa > package-list.txt
Edit this to make it a shell script with yum and run it.
eg yum -y update package name on each line.
This was my first idea, just put backslashes at the end of
each line, easy with an edit macro.
An improvement could be to modify your package list text file to change
the line feeds to blank spaces, then feed that to one yum command. A
problem with that *may* be if the list was very long.
Yeah, it is the same as a yum update with lots of packages.
It takes forever and any interruption wrecks the whole
transaction. It also takes a lot more resources, so if you
have constraints, the individual updates will work better.
I'd imagine that the intermittent download of a few packages
at a time is easier on the servers too though that might be
a questionable assumption. Note that I'm not necessarily
looking for the *fastest* solution, just a stable dependable
solution.
Of course, if your next upgrade is an install, you could give that
package list to anaconda, and let it handle it.
Thanks for the pointer. There is no man page but a search
turns up http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda as the main
page and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options for
command line options and
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart for
kickstart scripting for anaconda.
I'll look into this as a means of update and install.
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