Am 26.02.2013 21:11, schrieb Stephen Morris: >> The GUIs are rarely interactive, enough. If it's going to tell me that >> there's updates available, I want to see a list, not just a total >> number. I want to click on items in that list, and find out what they >> are. And I want to be able to click on some items and skip them. The >> software install/update GUI tool on Ubuntu, annoying as it was, was far >> better than the one on Fedora. > Just my 2 cents worth. I don't know which gui you are using but if I'm using a gui tool I use Yumex, which provides > all the capabilities you are mentioning here by default. What is annoying for me is that doing what you are asking > for is its default mode on start up and I haven't been able to find a way of change that default behavior. yum remove Packagekit\* and all this useless GUI crap is gone [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i packagekit [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/cron.daily/check-updates.cron #!/bin/bash yum_output=`LANG=C; yum -q check-update` echo $yum_output | xargs | sed 's/ updates//g' | tr -d '\n' and voila, if there are updates you get a mail to notify you what apckages are available and "yum upgrade" is your friend
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