[Yum] What is the difference between the following options : updates, available and extras

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Jan 5 15:57:24 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 10:48, Harish Chauhan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anybody mail me the difference between the following options :
> 
> 1. yum list updates
 lists updates available for your system.

> 2. yum list available
  lists all packages available for updates or to be installed.

> 3. yum list extras
 lists all packages that are installed on your system that are not
listed, anywhere, in any repository in your yum.conf

I think this in the yum man page.

-sv





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