[Yum] new boring features

[seth vidal]

> So is yum list available the same as yum list new?

yes. it just makes a slight bit more sense grammatically.

> On a different topic.  I was testing yum update last night and was
> confused about what yum was doing.  We have 2 areas, main with the
> standard distributions and updates with the errata.  I wanted to upgrade
> the openssl* rpms and the openssh* rpms from updates.  So a "yum list
> updates" shows all of these open* rpms and no others.  So I did a "yum
> update open*".  Well yum decided to do everything from both main and
> updates so it started to install openmotif-devel, and all the other open*
> rpms.  I just expected it to the open* from what a yum list updates shows.
> If I wanted all of them I would have done a "yum install open*".

right - but it emulates how rpm functions ie:

rpm -Uvh open* in a dir will install in mode "update" all packages
matching that wildcard.

so if I attempt a: yum update pkg_i_dont_have_installed
it will install the package even though I don't have it installed - the
behavior then remains consistent with rpm. Just like if I attempt to yum
install pkg_i_have_installed_but_have_an_older_version yum realizes I've
already got it installed but that there is a newer version and switches
to an update for that package.

Having said that I can see how that might be confusing - I'm open to
other opinions on this, at the moment. My general rule is - if you want
updates just run yum update - if you want to install stuff you can use
update or install.

> So why was I doing this wildcard test.  It is because I had some rpms
> that would not update that showed in "yum list updates".  So I decided to
> select all of what I needed except the bad rpm.  So this leads to the idea
> of a "ignore/exclude" list and maybe a "force" option.  I really do not
> want yum to upgrade the kernel on most of my systems.  This is because
> they are not my systems and kernel upgrading can cause problems.  So I
> want the end uses to decide.  So with the current yum I am forced to leave
> the kernel out of the updates area because if I do not the yum cron job
> will upgrade it.

so excludes are already supported - just check out the man page - search
for exclude.

I'm not sure if command-line excludes are a wise decision or not - it
could make life hard.

just add:
excludes=kernel kernel-smp kernel-source

to the [main] section of your yum.conf.

-sv


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