On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:56:40AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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: Too many arguments in embedded
> script
> Does anyone have a work around for this already (i.e. probably using
> shellcommands)?
Perhaps something like:
/bin/echo %s | xargs --max-args 20 /usr/bin/yum -y install \{\} \;
That would split up the package installation to only attempt 20 at
a time. Of course then you might have dependency problems if the
first 20 packages depend on something to be installed in the next
20 ..
Steve
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