On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 09:08 -0700, Frederic Herman wrote: > I want to be able to see what package updates are available before I > manually update them using yumex. Is there a way to do this with yum or > should I be doing something else? In some cases, I may see an available > package update and then decide I really don't even want the rpm on the > system, and therefore remove it. > okay then just run: yum list updates that lists the updates needed on your system. Then you can read the lists of pkgs there. > I'm trying to maintain several machines on a network, and need to come > up with some strategy to do this. If you could recommend documentation > on this, it would be appreciated. I really thought that having the > headers in the cache was a good way to do what I need. you don't need the headers in the cache to do it at all. If you want to get a handle on what you're using do this: yum list installed >> somefile then read through that file and look for pkgs you don't need on your system. then 'yum remove' those pkgs to get rid of them and/or see what other things depend on them. that way you can trim down your system. -sv
