"yum --partial" feature as a bash line

Thomas M Steenholdt tmus at tmus.dk
Thu Dec 15 21:59:36 UTC 2005


seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 22:42 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
>> Wil Cooley wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 12:24 +0100, cybernet at interia.pl wrote:
>>>
>>>> # get a list of items
>>>> # remove 4 lines from top  (tac/head/tac)
>>>> # try to update one item at a time
>>>> for k in `yum list updates | awk '{ print $1 }' | tac | head -n-4 | 
>>>> tac`; do yum -y update
>>>> $k; done
>>> UUOTac?  Try "sed '1,4d'" instead of the tac|head|tac stuff.  Or better,
>>> use an awk range to filter the output:
>>>
>>> awk '/^Setting up/,/^Updated Packages/{next};{print $1}'
>>>
>>> Although this might be better, because it could be used with '-e 0 -d 0'
>>> consistently:
>>>
>>> awk 'FNR==1,/^Updated Packages/ {next}; {print}'
>>>
>>> Wil
>>>
>> The problem with any of these are that long package names gets mangled 
>> in the yum output and i haven't found a place to tweak that.
>>
> 
> an EXCELLENT reason to never rely on screenscraping.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 

Agreed! That's why something like this should work closer to yum!

/Thomas




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