Non-urgent query re: yum ?

[William Case]

Thanks Björn

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 23:34 +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
> William Case wrote:
> > It would be nice and easy to just 'yum install --from-file
> > ~/billspackagelist' or after a disaster 'yum install
> > --from-file /backup/billspackagelist'
> 
> You could always make a little shell script of the whole command:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> yum install \
> this-package \
> that-package \
> some-other-package
> 
> Save the file as /usr/local/bin/install_my_packages and make it executable. 
> Then the command to install all the packages is just "install_my_packages".
> 

The best of the possible solutions I received; clever, quick and
flexible; does exactly what I want.

Regards Bill