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

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:01:32AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 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.

Maybe that should list only the latter since "updates" is already
listing the first part? Or maybe a new list command ("notinstalled")
for listing "packages available, but not 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

Which is BTW very useful!

> I think this in the yum man page.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
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