On 18 May 2016 17:57, "Frank Cox" theatre@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
On Wed, 18 May 2016 09:30:54 +0100 James Hogarth wrote:
And of course as will be pointed out by many the only right answer is
yum
update anyway given cherry picking updates is not supported.
The objective is not to cherry pick updates, but rather to install a
second system with packages that match the first system. After fine-tuning the installed packages and stripping out the unnecessary stuff, it would be nice to just say "make that system look like this one" -- rsync for yum if you will. The specific package versions aren't important at that stage since I can run yum update after the initial installation.
Well if you're planning on doing a yum update anyway just cat rpmlist | xargs yum -y install
Better solution to this though is a basic ansible task list defining what you need.