Re: Getting $(allclasses) into a shellcommand

[Erik Williamson]

I would set up a yum repository on the server for just those packages - 
even if is is a directory of symlinks to the actual packages.  In your 
shellcommands, you would then say:

'yum -c /path/to/special/yum.conf install \*'

This is what I do for all the 3rd party packages we use.

Hope this helps!
e.

Chip Seraphine wrote:
> I have some truly enormous $(allclasses) strings as a result of using cfengine 
> to maintain my RPM distributions.  (If you define one 15-to-25 character 
> class for every RPM you need installed, and you need a few hundred RPMs right 
> after a clean kickstart....)
>
> Anyway, I am having issues passing these large lists of classes into the perl 
> script that does the actual RPM installation.   Mark enlarged a buffer 
> somewheres when I had this problem earlier, but said buffer has been 
> outgrown...    I'd like to find a Proper Solution to this.
>
> What is a better way than "/some/command $(allclasses)" for doing this sort of 
> thing?  Is there some kind of iterator-type trick  anybody knows?

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