ken wrote, On 10/21/2009 05:12 AM: > On 10/20/2009 12:15 PM Benjamin Franz wrote: >> ken wrote: <SNIP> >>> >>> Yeah, this directory contains 1507 rpms (IIRC)... which is a lot, but it >>> should still work. This is Linux, after all. And there's plenty enough >>> memory and cpu to handle it. >>> >> Running >> >> rpm --freshen --repackage * >> >> for 1500+ rpms probably exceeds the maximum character length for some >> part of the system after expansion of the '*' by the shell. > <SNIP understanding shell command length> <SNIP drawn out scripting> > Benjamin, thanks for your constructive response. Any further such (from > you or anyone else) will be much appreciated. > > Best, > ken > >> Alternatively, use 'createrepo' to create a Yum repository of the RPMs >> and use yum to handle it for you. >> Ken, please let me second the idea for using createrepo on the collection so that you can then use yum to resolve everything. Assuming "/install" is where the rpms are at and createrepo is installed from base(at least on 5. it is in base), running the following commands should get the system going: createrepo /install cat >> /etc/yum.repos.d/quickupdate.repo << END_EOF [expedient] name=expedient update dir baseurl=file:///install enabled=0 #assume the machine already has gpg key for all rpms you have gpgcheck=1 END_EOF yum update --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=expedient alternatively if the problem is not really the shell length, then yum localupdate /install or yum localupdate /install/* might work. https://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=118#comment90 http://fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-140404.html -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter