[Yum-devel] how to make yum non-blocking

James Antill james at fedoraproject.org
Thu Sep 27 19:06:45 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:06 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:00 +0200, tim.lauridsen at gmail.com wrote:
> > just use yum --setopt=exit_on_lock=true to set a yum.conf setting
> > temporary on the command line
> Ah... awesome :)
> 
> And now... does someone perhaps now in which version exit_on_lock was
> introduced?
> 
> Cause check_yum should at least work with RHEL5/6 and at best also with
> 4.

 RHEL-4 doesn't have yum.
 RHEL-5 doesn't have that option for sure, it's not hard to backport but
it's very close to EOL now.
 RHEL-6 probably doesn't have it either, but again it's easy to backport
and is getting lots of them.



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