> Warn. > Without -y, yum's output could be: > > package quux needs xyz = 1.3 (not provided) > foo, bar, baz cannot be updated. > Proceed anyway? [y/N]: > I will do the following ... > Is this ok ? [y/N]: > > The option -y means: Answer yes to all (both) questions (if the man page is > right). you didn't respond to my other question - what if it is not a yum update but a yum update foo* bar baz > Installing fewer packages than requested should not be too shocking, given > that all other dependencies are satisfied. Yum should output a warning, > though. Why isn't it shocking? If I've just asked my computer to do X and it does X-3 I'm not surprised? And should it sys.exit(0) or sys.exit(1)? It seems like an error state to me. why should it complete successfully? -sv
