I think my main problem is not understanding how yum works. What is the best documentation for me to read? See also my questions/comments below inline. Thanks for your help. Fred seth vidal wrote: >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 > > Does that function go to the remote repos or does it just use the local cache. If the former is the case, then that's what I want. > >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. > > It seems that I can also use yumex to do the same thing. >-sv > > >_______________________________________________ >Yum mailing list >Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > > >
