RPM roadmapping

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri Jul 27 15:09:47 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:37:43 -0400,
  Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> 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.)




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