YumUtils

yum-utils

yum-utils is a collection of utilities and plugin extending and supplementing yum i differnt ways.

Utilities

All the utilities is contained in the mail yum-utils package.

Utility

Description

debuginfo-install

install debuginfo packages and their dependencies

package-cleanup

manage package cleanup, duplicates, orphaned packages and outstanding dependency problems

repo-graph

outputs a full package dependency list in dot format

repo-rss

generates an RSS feed from one or more repositories

repoclosure

reads metadata of repositories, checks dependencies and displays list of unresolved dependencies

repodiff

takes two or more repositories, returns a list of added, removed or changed packages

repomanage

manages a directory of rpm packages, returns a list of newest or oldest packages in a directory

repoquery

query yum repositories and get additional information on the them

reposync

synchronize a remote yum repository to a local directory using yum to retrieve packages

repotrack

track packages and its dependencies and downloads them

yum-builddep

installs missing dependencies to build a specified package

yum-complete-transaction

finds incomplete or aborted yum transactions and attempts to complete them

yumdownloader

downloads packages from yum repositories including source RPMs

yum-debug-dump

Dump infomation about the systems yum configuration into at tarball

Plugins

The plugins is contained in a package for each plugin, so they can be installed at choice. The package is named yum-<pluginname>.

See the this guide for more information about writing your own plugins

Plugin

Description

aliases

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to enable aliases filters

allowdowngrade

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to enable manual downgrading of packages

basearchonly

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to let Yum install only basearch packages.

changelog

[WWW] git

Yum plugin for viewing package changelogs before/after updating

downloadonly

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to add downloadonly command option

fastestmirror

[WWW] git

Yum plugin which chooses fastest repository from a mirrorlist

fedorakmod

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to handle fedora kernel modules.

filter-data

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to list filter based on package data

kernel-module

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to handle kernel-module-foo type of kernel module

keys

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to deal with signing keys

list-data

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to list aggregate package data

merge-conf

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to merge configuration changes when installing packages

priorities

[WWW] git

plugin to give priorities to packages from different repos

protect-packages

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to prevents Yum from removing itself and other protected packages

protectbase

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to protect packages from certain repositories.

refresh-updatesd

[WWW] git

Tell yum-updatesd to check for updates when yum exits

security

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to enable security filters

skip-broken

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to handle skiping packages with dependency problems

tmprepo

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to add temporary repositories

tsflags

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to add tsflags by a commandline option

upgrade-helper

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to help upgrades to the next distribution version

verify

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to add verify command, and options

versionlock

[WWW] git

Yum plugin to lock specified packages from being updated


CategoryYumUtils

last edited 2008-05-23 11:29:54 by TimLauridsen