Re: [CentOS-devel] pending updates notification on login

On 06/12/2014 12:38 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:

hi,

I'd really like to have something where a user, on login to the vm or machine instance is told 'you have XX pending updates'. the data can come from a yum-plugin writing something somewhere ( so its not a case of running yum on each login ).

Who wants to take a stab at writing something for this ?

• KB

For CentOS 6 there are gpk-update-viewer and gpk-update-icon commands.

gpk-update-icon is for noticication there is something to update (orange 8-point star), that command can be added to Startup Applications, and gpk-update-viewer is what you get when you click on the star.

have you had something else on the mind? Or for CentOS 7 perhaps?