Charlie Brady wrote: >> Well, plugin to remove all packages but yum, if yum is within updated >> packages, is easy to write. But plugin can only stop yum execution and >> I can't see way to run yum again after yum update by itself. > > I don't see why yum couldn't update yum, then exec the new yum program, > listing the remaining packages as install arguments. You'd need to > unlock the lock file before calling execve. no! yum, on re-entry, needs to re-parse the metadata - its possible remote end metadata has changed for the new yum as well. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq