yum-shell(8)

yum – Yellowdog Updater Modified shell

Synopsis

yum shell [filename]

Description

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

Examples

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.

Authors

See the Authors file included with this program.

Bugs