[CentOS-devel] pending updates notification on login

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

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?

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