Hi everyone, To go with the shiny new yum-2.4.0 release, here comes yum-utils 0.3. Short summary of changes: * Several plugins enhancing yum in various ways included * repo-rss, repoclosure and repoquery now work properly for non-root users * Lot's of fixes, improvements and new features in the included utilities * For the g(l)ory details see below Tarball: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/yum-utils/yum-utils-0.3.tar.gz md5sum 9e671bce46841d2a1b20478392662eb1 SRPM: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/yum-utils/yum-utils-0.3-1.src.rpm md5sum 7935732a6830073001f97ddf5892e7a6 Detailed what's new: New plugins: * fastestmirror - automatically selects fastest mirror to download packages from * changelog - view changelog deltas before or after updating packages * protectbase - allows packages from given repositories to be protected from being overridden by packages from other repositories * tsflags - allow specifying extra tsflags such as "test" to yum transactions * versionlock - allow locking packages to certain versions repoquery: * Use private cache for non-root operation * Support various new rpmquery formatting tricks such as --qf "%-20{repoid} %{name}" and --qf "%{buildtime:date}" * Available querytags can be viewed with --querytags option * All query results are now formattable with --qf * Package arguments (wildcards etc) are parsed identically to yum * Source packages are now accessed by speficing .src as the package arch, eg 'repoquery -l glibc.src' * --whatprovides returns all possible providers, not just the "best" * Don't traceback on unknown queryformats and conversions * Allow querying limited set of packages with --pkgnarrow=installed|available|all|recent|updates * Optionally show all available versions of packages with --show-dupes instead of just latest version repoclosure: * Use private cache for non-root operation * Allow specifying arch and different config file from cli * Allow repoclosure to be used as a class from other programs package-cleanup: * Cleanups and optimizations * Option to remove kernels automatically * Remove kernel-devel packages together with kernel packages repo-rss: * Use private cache for non-root operation Enjoy, and let us know if it breaks :) - Panu -
