[Yum] feature missing from yum :)

[Nielsen, Steve]

I want to use yum to update my boxes as well as install new RPMs. Seth cleared it up any way. "yum install" will do what I am asking for.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Watkin [mailto:robwatkin at tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:35 AM
To: Yellowdog Updater, " Modified
Subject: RE: [Yum] feature missing from yum :)


It seems to me that the whole point of yum is to keep your machine
up-to-date _all_ the time. This is achieved by putting 'yum update' into
a cronjob.

So you don't need the -F and -U options anyway.

Rob 

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 14:23, Nielsen, Steve wrote:
> What I am asking for is behavior that is similar to rpm behavior (since yum mostly emulates it anyway).
> 
> rpm -e is yum erase
> rpm -i is yum install
> rpm -F (freshen) is yum update
> rpm -U (update if installed else install)? - this is what is missing....
> 
> I am not complaining just hoping the feature will be added. It would be very useful for installing RPMs using yum on lots of machines. Then I don't have to wrap yum or use rpm directly all the time (rpm -q $rpmname && yum update $name || yum install $name).  
> 
> Since yum is written for sysadmins and I am a sysadmin I asking for this feature.
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Geddings [mailto:chris at geddings.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 8:10 AM
> To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified
> Subject: Re: [Yum] feature missing from yum :)
> 
> 
> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2003-April/000887.html
> 
> Start there.
> 
> Not sure where the state of the conversation is now, but, IIRC, the idea
> is that an update should only update, not install, and that the
> functionality of installation should be handled through some kind of
> batching operation, though I'm not sure where the status of that is.
> 
> --Chris
> 
> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 08:49, Nielsen, Steve wrote:
> > Will there be the "-U" rpm equivalent feature in yum ? This is where you issue an "update" but if its not install yum will install it instead of updating. Perhaps this could be implemented as a different keyword?
> > 
> > Steve
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