On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Simon Perreault wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to drive yum from a script. I've realized that yum (the > command) is really a command-line GUI, not designed for being scripted the > UNIX way. > > For example: I wanted to get the names of packages available for update. Easy, > I thought, I'll just parse the output of "yum list updates". But there is a > problem with packages whose name is longer than the width of the column for > names. Some packages' name ends "under" the version column. So, what are my > options? Some of what you might already exist in repoquery from yum-utils, which unlike yum, is intented for scripting, just as rpm -q is and has rpm-like --queryformat formatting support. The current version wont give you 'updated packages' in any easy way (you'd have to compare against rpm -q output etc) but I'm not opposed to adding something like --list=updates/avail/recent/extras to it as that functionality already exists in yum libraries. - Panu -
