[Yum] "update --dry-run" equivalent output from yum or yum-utils?

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 15:51 +0000, jimjcollins at comcast.net wrote:
>  
> I don't think "check-update" does the dependency resolution to
> determine if any additional, potentially uninstalled,  packages need
> to be pulled in to satisfactorily install the listed update packages.
>  
> Or perhaps "check-update" does the dependency resolution but is not
> announcing that behavoir in its output as is done for the "yum update"
> command?
>  
> The yum man page makes no mention of "check-update" doing the
> dependency resolution, seems to be indicating that only the list of
> update packages will be output.
>  


in yum.conf

you can add

tsflags=test

which will do everything except the rpm transaction will be run with
--test

-sv