On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:49 AM Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net> wrote: > Once upon a time, mark <m.roth at 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? -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz