Package installation of RPMs - Too many arguments in embedded script

[brett.dellegrazie]

Hi,

 

Firstly I'd like to say nice job on cfengine.  It is an excellent tool.

 

I'm using cfengine 2.1.20 (DAG rpm) on CentOS 4.3.

 

I'm trying to install a large number of RPMS for some 3rd party apps via the 'package' mechanism.

I'm using Yum so my rpm install command is:

 

RPMInstallCommand = ( "/usr/bin/yum -y install %s" )

 

However I'm getting the messages (in verbose mode):

 

.... long list of packages...

package install: cfengine:build-test:/var/cfengine/inputs/cf.packages:Use a wrapper

 

and later.

... long list of packages ...

package install: cfengine:build-test: Too many arguments in embedded script

package install: cfengine:build-test: Package install command was not successful

 

Does anyone have a work around for this already (i.e. probably using shellcommands)?

 

I'm assuming here that the cause is that the shear number of packages exceeds the limit

imposed by cfengine when calling an internal script.  I haven't debugged that far yet but I'm

open to suggestions.

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Best Regards,

 

Brett

 

Brett Delle Grazie

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