[CentOS] configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

JohnS jses27 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 16:33:13 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 12:18 -0400, ken wrote:
> On 08/03/2010 11:30 AM Bowie Bailey wrote:
> >  On 8/3/2010 11:27 AM, ken wrote:
> >> On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> >>>> ken wrote:
> >>>>> On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote:
> >>>>>> ....
> >>>> Yep - if any version of yum is running, no other will. At work, I do *not*
> >>>> have yum-updatesd turned up - I want to control when and what. Certainly,
> >>>> I don't want to update, say, firefox while folks are using it on their
> >>>> desktops. And some managers are rather picky as to what servers get
> >>>> updated, and when, esp. their production boxes. So, it's tedious, but I
> >>>> have control - yum runs when I run it, and not otherwise.
> >>> ---
> >>> Ahh as long as yum-updated is running as a service regular yum update
> >>> will not run!  IE, you killed the yum-updatesd service and that is why
> >>> yum update ran.
> >> So is there a way to configure yum and/or yum-updatesd so that I get a
> >> GUI notice that updates are available, but then run the actual update
> >> when I want from the CLI?
> > 
> > Run 'yum check-update' as a cron job.
> > 
> 
> yum-updatesd lights up a GUI notification.  Can 'yum check-update' do this?
---
No, your out of luck there.  I'm sure that would not be a hard hack
though.

John




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