yum localupdate compains arguement list too long

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Wed Dec 6 16:18:53 UTC 2006


On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:15:08AM -0800, Barry Yu wrote:
> I downloaded and stored all the rpm update packages in folder where I plan to use for other new install of Fedora systems so each of them won't need to do yum update through Internet. 
> When I used yum localupdate /mnt/allrpmupdates/*.rpm, the yum displayed  a message "arguement list too long" and then stopped doing anything, when I issued yum localupate /mnt/allrpmupdates/a*.rpm , yum started the local update and I have to repleat yum localupdate b*.rpm, c*.rpm to z*.rpm.
> Is there any way to use the yum localupdate to do the localupate at one time ?

cd /mnt/allrpmupdates; yum localupdate *.rpm
?
That will make each filename 19 chars shorter, which might make a
difference.

	Jakub




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