On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 00:51 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote: > 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. > honestly I need to take most of the code from cli.py and put a simplified update method in yum/__init__.py then you could get 'updated packages' a lot more simply. -sv
