Writing Yum Plugins

See the WritingYumPlugins guide for more information.

Plugins

• aliases

  • A plugin for creating command line aliases for yum

• allowdowngrade

  • A plugin that allows an install transaction to install an older version of a package.

• basearchonly

  • A plugin to change how multilib. installs for (Eg. x86_64)

• changelog

  • View changelog deltas before or after updating packages

• downloadonly

  • A plugin that stops the yum application after the package downloads have been done.

• fastestmirror

  • A plugin which very quickly sorts the repositories mirror list by connection speed prior to downloading packages.

• merge-conf

  • A plugin that tries to help the user when config. files change.

• priorities

  • A plugin allowing the admin. to give priorities to different repos, so that packages are protected from being overridden.

• protectbase

  • Allows packages from given repositories to be protected from being overridden by packages from other repositories

• refresh-updatesd

  • Tell yum-updatesd to refresh itself via dbus

• security

  • A plugin that uses the updateinfo.xml data to allow security related choices for updates/listing.

• tsflags

  • Allow specifying extra tsflags such as "test" to yum transactions

• versionlock

  • Allow locking packages to certain versions

CategoryYum