Yum plugins...

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 17:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> It seems that I have a lot of Yum plugins, so I need to
> ask if these plugins are needed or if any of these should
> be removed?  If so, how do I remove them?
> 
> Loaded plugins: aliases, allowdowngrade, changelog, downloadonly,
> fastestmirror,
>               : fedorakmod, filter-data, kernel-module, keys, list-data,
> merge-
>               : conf, presto, priorities, protect-packages, protectbase,
>               : refresh-packagekit, refresh-updatesd, security, tmprepo,
>               : tsflags, upgrade-helper, verify, versionlock

Never heard of some of those. You don't *need* any of them, that's why
they're plugins. To find out more, do "ls /etc/yum/pluginconf.d".

For each file in that directory, do "rpm
-qf /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/module-name.conf". That will tell you which
package each belongs to.

Then for each such package, do "rpm -qi <package-name>" to get more info
about what it's for.

Or just run:

for i in $(ls /etc/yum/pluginconf.d); do rpm -qi $(rpm -qf /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/$i); done

poc