[plug] up2date

[Jon L. Miller]

I was afraid you would say this, oh well I'll get busy with this script
and if I have any problem after researching I'll post the problem to
you.

Thanks


On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 01:19, Colin Muller wrote:
> 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
> 
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