Re: Getting $(allclasses) into a shellcommand

[Russell Adams]

Apt-get has groups? Care to elaborate?

Russell

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:40:38PM -0600, Ed Brown wrote:
> You could define groups of rpms, (using yum groups, apt-get groups,
> comps.xml, your own flat text files, whatever...), define a class
> corresponding to a GROUP of rpms if any rpm in that group is missing,
> and let your wrapper script take it from there.  $(allclasses) is
> manageably shorter, and hopefully the hundreds of rpms are easier to
> manage as well.
> 
> If this is a single group of rpms, common to all your systems, install
> them at kickstart, and save having to check for them every time cfengine
> runs.  
> 
> -Ed
> 
> ps. It would indeed be great if 'packages:' allowed for executing
> actions, rather than just defining classes.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 12:16, 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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