Yum

[Tom Diehl]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Srinivasan S wrote:

> Hi Folks
> 
> To keep my Fedora update I typically use the Gnome update tool .. it shows me a list of the packages I need to update .. cool
> 
> Yesterday I tried yum and found that when I do a "yum checkupdate" it showed me a list of all the pacakges that are updated and not necessarily only the ones that are installed on my system.
> 
> How do I configure yum to download the updates of only the rpms that are currently installed in my system ?

yum list updates will show what needs updating. yum update will do the actual 
updates. It will only dload the rpms it needs.

man yum for more info.

HTH,

Tom