[plug] up2date

[Colin Muller]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:26:42PM +0800, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> Want to be able to use up2date to download packages available for a
> profile.  However the profile lists over 52 packages, I do not want
> to have to issue the up2dae command 52 time (once per package), is
> there a better way to d/l the packages using up2date? Also want to
> do this via the command line.

Perhaps place all the up2date commands you want to run in a shell
script, one package per line, and then run that? Like:

#!/bin/bash
up2date kdebase
up2date gimp

etc, etc. You couldmake the script shorter with a loop, but that's
probably overkill given the simplicity of the problem

Colin