yum update / install from file

[Aldo Foot]

On 10/22/07, Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
>
> Tony Crouch wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I was wondering if anyone knows whether its possible to update yum from
> > a file containing a list of packages (one per line).
> >
> > I have tried:
> >
> > yum -y install < file-name
>
> Better: yum -y install $(cat filename)
>
> makes from the lines of filename the options list (package list) for yum.
>
> Regards
>
> Joachim Backes


So one could  have  a  local directory, which updates regularly from a
remote site
using rsync and use that to update the local system?
How about remote systems?

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