Re: Feature or bug? (strange?) yum behaviour

["Jeff Spaleta" <jspaleta gmail com>]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Mark <markg85 gmail com> wrote:

Pseudo code style..
yum list install gimp [1]
if yum found gimp
 - ask to look for updates and install them if the user answers "y"
else
 - install gimp

[1] I noticed that yum wants to update his local repository here as
well. I think it's better to get that behaviour out yum and only
update it's local repo if there is none available or a update command
is given or a install command is given.

Hope that explains it better.

Human: I want to see what version of a package I have installed without doing network access.

Yum command:  yum list installed packagename

Human I want to see if there is an update of that package available

Yum command  yum list updates packagename

I dont see a reason why yum needs to be interactive and prompt for a chain of queries..when you can do the queries yourself in whatever order you desire.

-jef