Re: Getting $(allclasses) into a shellcommand

[Chip Seraphine]

Yeah, I realized a while ago that this is what I *should* have done.  However, 
I really wanted ot use the new packages: stuff.  It works fine, the only 
problem is that all it really does for you is set/unset classes-- and 
cfengine doesn't seem to like dealing with class lists whose size measures 
well into the four digits.

(Not true:  It seems to handle it fine internally.  The problem only arises 
when passing this around to outside scripts.)

On Thursday 15 July 2004 14:11, Erik Williamson wrote:
> 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?
> > 
> 
> -- 
> e r i k   w i l l i a m s o n                     erik@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
>   system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary
> 

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