Writing Yum Plugins
See the WritingYumPlugins guide for more information.
Plugins
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A plugin for creating command line aliases for yum
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A plugin that allows an install transaction to install an older version of a package.
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A plugin to change how multilib. installs for (Eg. x86_64)
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View changelog deltas before or after updating packages
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A plugin that stops the yum application after the package downloads have been done.
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A plugin which very quickly sorts the repositories mirror list by connection speed prior to downloading packages.
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A plugin that tries to help the user when config. files change.
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A plugin allowing the admin. to give priorities to different repos, so that packages are protected from being overridden.
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Allows packages from given repositories to be protected from being overridden by packages from other repositories
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Tell yum-updatesd to refresh itself via dbus
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A plugin that uses the updateinfo.xml data to allow security related choices for updates/listing.
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Allow specifying extra tsflags such as "test" to yum transactions
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Allow locking packages to certain versions