yum -y update installs new software!?
Vinicius
cviniciusm at terra.com.br
Fri Jan 28 14:22:31 UTC 2005
Paul Howarth escreveu:
> Vinicius wrote:
>
>> Markku Kolkka escreveu:
>>
>>> Vinicius kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 28. tammikuuta
>>> 2005 04:33):
>>>
>>>> Did they were installed to satisfy some dependencies? How I
>>>> get this information, please?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Don't use the "-y" flag in yum update. Then it shows which new
>>> packages will be installed to satisfy dependencies in updates.
>>>
>>
>> That occurred by the nightly yum by the cron.
>
>
> If you have a package "strangepackage" and you want to know what depends
> on it, run, as a regular user (not root):
>
> $ rpm -e strangepackage
>
> If any other installed package depends on this one, you'll get an error
> message telling you what the dependency is. If not, you'll get an error
> message saying you don't have permission to remove the package ("error:
> can't create transaction lock"), because you're not running as root. So
> this way you find out what the dependencies are without removing the
> package. You can then decide if you want to remove the package for real
> or not.
>
> Paul.
>
Good tip, thanks!
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