Hi all: A while back I asked how to make yum install a package rather than upgrade it. I have modified the yum.conf to include a line like: installonlypkgs=kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enterprise, kernel-debug, kernel-unsupported, sec (Line was split for dispaly, it's all on one line in the config file. I assume it must have all of the packges listed on the same line, does anybody know if there is a line length limit because this line will be getting long). My RPM's have a pre(install) scriptlet that verifies that they are being installed and not updated. If I install with rpm, I can parse the command line ofx the parent process of the scriptlet and verify that -i or --install was used rather than -U or --update. How can I verify the same when installing under yum? I want to make sure that installonlypkgs is properly set and the package is being installed and not updated. Since yum does the work internally, all I get as the parent to my scriptlet is: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum install sec which doesn't really tell me if the package is being installed or updated. I could grep yum.conf for the package name I guess but that sounds very error prone (might match a substring etc). Is there any way to query the parent yum process to find out what mode it is employing to process the package? Does anybody have any other ideas on how I can verify that the rpm is being installed and not updated by yum? Thanks for your help. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-643-9300 x 111 _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
