RPM roadmapping

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Jul 27 14:37:43 UTC 2007


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.  

Jeremy




More information about the devel mailing list