On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:15:27PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > Here's the case. I need to create a script which basically runs yum -y > update, and after runs another script whose action depends on what yum did. > yum errors can be checked from the return code, but it seems that a > successful update and no update at all returns the same return code : 0. > Is there a scriptable-way to test whether yum did anything, other than > grepping the string "No Packages marked for Update" from yum output? Run 'yum check-update' first and check its exit code first. Then you'll be able to distinguish between these two cases. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
