system-config-packages

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

> yum update pirut will tell you what packages will be affected before they
> are patched.  Man yum for more information.
<snip>
To be more explicit - yum update will show you everything to be updated
(without anything, it will try to update the entire system)... but then
*ask* you [y/N]. This is as opposed to yum -y update <whatever>, which
will do it without stopping to ask.

       mark