Seth, On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, seth vidal wrote: > Hi all, > Andrew in the math dept here at duke asked me if I could make yum list > and yum info dtrt w/regard to the installed packages - so there is a new > daily that can do this: > > yum list pkgname - it now looks through the installed pkgs and remote > ones for something matching pkgname > > ditto for yum info pkgname > > 'yum list installed' returns a listing of what rpm -qa would normally > do. > > ditto for yum info installed. > > fairly straightforward these are just silly little functions. > > I modified 'yum list' though so that 'yum list new' is no more. > So is yum list available the same as yum list new? On a different topic. I was testing yum update last night and was confused about what yum was doing. We have 2 areas, main with the standard distributions and updates with the errata. I wanted to upgrade the openssl* rpms and the openssh* rpms from updates. So a "yum list updates" shows all of these open* rpms and no others. So I did a "yum update open*". Well yum decided to do everything from both main and updates so it started to install openmotif-devel, and all the other open* rpms. I just expected it to the open* from what a yum list updates shows. If I wanted all of them I would have done a "yum install open*". So why was I doing this wildcard test. It is because I had some rpms that would not update that showed in "yum list updates". So I decided to select all of what I needed except the bad rpm. So this leads to the idea of a "ignore/exclude" list and maybe a "force" option. I really do not want yum to upgrade the kernel on most of my systems. This is because they are not my systems and kernel upgrading can cause problems. So I want the end uses to decide. So with the current yum I am forced to leave the kernel out of the updates area because if I do not the yum cron job will upgrade it. Thanks -Connie Sieh Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory > options are: > yum list > yum list available > yum list updates > yum list installed > yum list [pkgname] > > exactly the same for yum info > > > I'll update the man pages before too long, but that's the gist of it - > daily is up in the normal place: http://www.dulug.duke.edu/yum/download/ > > barring anything abysmally stupid I'll make 0.9.2 this weekend. > > cool? > > -sv > >
