On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:38:28PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Monday, October 31, 2005 7:09 PM -0700 Michal Jaegermann > <michal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >I guess that you are thinking about 'check-update' yum command. If > >there are updates then yum will produce a list of available updates > >and will exit with a status 100 and otherwise this status is 0. > >Once you have a list you can retrieve packages by whatever means you > >have on hands. > > The pre-2.1 yum included the option to the update command to download > updates but not install them. This eliminates the need to wait for them to > download once I've blessed them. I'd use that option in the midnight cron > job, then apply the updates in the morning. Yes, that is what I am saying here. It is not a great feat to write a script which runs from cron and does "if status is not zero then download packages from this list". Of course when '--download-only' option was available you did not have to write that script. Michal -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
