On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Matt McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:29 AM, drew wymore <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Matt McKenzie <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > So, I have Fedora 11 running in a VirtualBox VM. > > > I had it setup earlier, but somehow screwed it up and decided to just > > wipe > > > it and start over (its only a VM anyway). > > > Before I did, I created a list of installed RPMs (after installing many > > > from > > > regular repos and RPMFusion), so I wouldn't have to go through manually > > and > > > reinstall them. > > > > > > So I have a file generated by > > > $ rpm -qa > rpmlist.txt > > > > > > So far I can't seem to find a way to have yum fetch and install the > RPMs > > > listed in a text file. > > > > > > My google fu so far hasn't come up with anything, but perhaps there is > > some > > > better way of wording it... > > > hopefully someone else has run into something like this. Funny how I > > > haven't yet, though I have used Fedora since FC1, and RedHat 5-9 before > > > that > > > (as in the old RedHat Linux, not RHEL) > > > > > > In a nutshell I want to do something like this: > > > > > > $ sudo yum install < rpmlist.txt > > > > > > But that doesn't work, since yum isn't setup to directly take pipes or > > > redirects from command line. > > > > > > Also note the package list has full RPM names, including version, so > the > > > list may need to be trimmed or something to just the package names > only. > > > (Ex... foo-bar-1.2.3-fc11.i586.rpm, and yum probably wants just foo-bar > > > only) > > > > > > Any help, hints, nudges where to look, etc... > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------- > > > Matt M. > > > LinuxKnight > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > > > I haven't tried this yet Matt as I just installed Fedora last night but > you > > might try this. > > > > cat rpmlist.txt |xargs > > > > then copy the list and export it to a variable like RPMLIST > > > > for i in $RPMLIST; do yum install $i; done > > > > HTH, > > Drew- > > _______________ > > > > > Drew, > > I don't think I would want to spawn a new yum process for each line though. > Yum isn't just the installer, that is what the "rpm" command is for (though > rpm only works locally). > Yum also fetches something if you don't have it, and it resolves > dependencies. > Thus I don't know if having it run on each line is a good way to do it. > > I want to feed it the list of files, and have it run the whole list, and > download and install them all. > > Maybe this method would work, but on first glance anyway it seems like it > would cause a massive system load trying to run yum for each line (there > are > many many lines, not just a few or a dozen, but several hundred or more). > > If you just give it a bunch of package names on the command line, it will > check to see if they are already installed, and if not, fetch and install > them. > > Ex: > > $ yum install foo bar baz xyzzy > > Will check and install all four packages (foo bar baz xyzzy). > > So now I have a huge list of packages in a text file, and want it to do > similar thing, without having to just copy and paste the huge list onto a > command line. It sounds like it should be doable.... > > > ---------- > Matt M. > LinuxKnight > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > Good point Matt. I'm coming from using Slackware so admittedly I'm not used to yum quite yet. Although exporting the list to a variable and just feeding the variable name might work? so yum -y $RPMLIST .. I'm installing KDE right now otherwise I'd test this before just tossing it out there but it's an idea at least. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
