On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:43:56 -0800 (PST), onlythe best <jasteed1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > YUM is a great package manager but it looks like YUM > updates all updates available to my system and not > just those installed in my system. For instance, I > don't have gaim installed but a gaim update is > available and will be installed (yum -y) the next time > I run yum. Is there a configuration setting I can > set to make yum only update those packages that are > installed on my system. You have a couple of options. One thing you could do is a # yum list update And then use the output of that to see which installed files are going to be updated. Based upon that, you can say # yum update foo And any updates from foo will be installed. But I don't believe that yum works the way you think yum works. I think that you probably DO have gaim installed, even if you didn't mean to install it. If you do a "yum -y update" it will only update software that you have installed. If you still disagree with this, then it's probably worth investigating futher. If gaim is truly a package that meets your conditions of not being installed, but yum tries to update it, what is the output of # rpm -qa | grep -i gaim and # locate gaim If gaim doesn't meet your conditions anymore, do the same two commands with another package that does meet your conditions. > > Some packages like gaim I know I can manually > uninstall or individually yum upgrade each package, > but there are some many Linux especially in FC > applications that it's difficult to know which apps > are required or have dependencies. If you are trying to find what dependencies there are from a given package, you can use # rpm -q -R yum And you will get all of the packages that yum provides. A little bit of command line trickery will allow you to reverse that information (i.e. find which packages are dependent on a given package). Greg
