[Yum] Headers Not Downloading

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 09:08 -0700, Frederic Herman wrote:
> 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.
> 

okay then just run:
yum list updates


that lists the updates needed on your system. Then you can read the
lists of pkgs there.


> 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.

you don't need the headers in the cache to do it at all.



If you want to get a handle on what you're using do this:
yum list installed >> somefile

then read through that file and look for pkgs you don't need on your
system.

then 'yum remove' those pkgs to get rid of them and/or see what other
things depend on them.

that way you can trim down your system.

-sv