"yum --partial" feature as a bash line

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

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.

/Thomas