yum - Yellowdog Updater Modified shell

yum shell [filename]

yum includes an interactive shell for conducting multiple commands or sets of commands during a single execution of yum. These commands can be issued manually or passed to yum from a file. The commands are much the same as the normal yum command line options. See here yum(8) for that information. There are a few additional commands documented below.

config

[argument] [value] args: debuglevel, errorlevel, obsoletes, gpgcheck, assumeyes, exclude If no value is given it prints the current value. If value is given it sets that value.

repo

[argument] [option] list: lists repositories and their status enable: enable repositories. option = repository id disable: disable repositories. option = repository id

transaction

[argument] list: lists the contents of the transaction reset: reset (zero-out) the transaction solve: run the dependency solver on the transaction run: run the transaction

The following are examples of using the yum shell.

list available packagename* groupinfo 'Some Group' install foo remove bar update baz run

That will list available packages matching the glob 'packagename*'. It will return information on the group 'Some Group' It will then queue the following commands into the transaction: install foo, remove bar, update baz. Then the 'run' command will resolve dependencies for the transaction commands and run the transaction.

yum (8)
http://linux.duke.edu/yum/

See the Authors file included with this program.

There of course aren't any bugs, but if you find any, they should be sent to the mailing list: yum@lists.linux.duke.edu or filed in bugzilla.