Charlie Brady wrote: >> 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. > > OK, so you want the first yum to exec a new yum with the same arguments > that it itself was called with. It will then calculate its own > transaction set. yes :) > Hopefully it will not itself try to replace itself with the old yum > package. humm ? after the yum package has updated, there really should be no hint of the old yum stuff..... -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq