22 May
2019
22 May
'19
4:59 p.m.
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:49 AM Chris Adams linux@cmadams.net wrote:
Once upon a time, mark m.roth@5-cent.us said:
Ralf Prengel wrote:
Hallo, I need the information how many updates are available for a system. What is the best way to find it out in a one line bash script.
yum check-update, perhaps?
Note that "yum check-update" or "yum list updates" won't tell you how many packages would be installed with "yum update"... dependencies and such are not resolved for check-update/list updates.
otoh, its pretty rare that an update has a new dependency... if the package is installed, its existing dependencies are also installed, and if they have updates, check-update would show them all, would it not?
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