[Yum] Headers Not Downloading

[Frederic Herman]

I want to be able to see what package updates are available before I 
manually update them using yumex.  Is there a way to do this with yum or 
should I be doing something else?  In some cases, I may see an available 
package update and then decide I really don't even want the rpm on the 
system, and therefore remove it.

I'm trying to maintain several machines on a network, and need to come 
up with some strategy to do this.  If you could recommend documentation 
on this, it would be appreciated.  I really thought that having the 
headers in the cache was a good way to do what I need.

Thanks again.

Fred

seth vidal wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 08:45 -0700, Frederic Herman wrote:
>  
>
>>How do I get the headers to download using yum?  According to what 
>>little I could find, the check-update was supposed to do that.  See:
>>
>>http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/8835
>>
>>If there is a way to automate the repo header cache(s), please let me 
>>know of point me to a howto.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>why do you want the headers to download?
>
>That article is talking about an ancient version of yum. We don't use
>the headers like that anymore.
>
>-sv
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