yum-shell (8)

Leading comments

yum shell - Yum shell interface

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man8/yum-shell.8".)

NAME

yum - Yellowdog Updater Modified shell

SYNOPSIS

yum shell [filename]

DESCRIPTION

yum includes an interactive shell for conducting multiple commands or sets of commands during a single execution of yum. These commands can be issued manually or passed to yum from a file. The commands are much the same as the normal yum command line options. See here yum(8) for that information. There are a few additional commands documented below.

config

   [argument] [value] 
   args: debuglevel, errorlevel, obsoletes, gpgcheck, assumeyes, exclude
     If no value is given it prints the current value. 
     If value is given it sets that value.

repo

   [argument] [option]
     list: lists repositories and their status
     enable: enable repositories. option = repository id 
     disable: disable repositories. option = repository id 

transaction

   [argument]
     list: lists the contents of the transaction 
     reset: reset (zero-out) the transaction 
     solve: run the dependency solver on the transaction
     run: run the transaction 

Examples

The following are examples of using the yum shell.

 list available packagename*
 groupinfo 'Some Group'
 install foo
 remove bar
 update baz
 run
That will list available packages matching the glob 'packagename*'. It will return information on the group 'Some Group' It will then queue the following commands into the transaction: install foo, remove bar, update baz. Then the 'run' command will resolve dependencies for the transaction commands and run the transaction.

SEE ALSO

yum (8)
yum.baseurl.org

AUTHORS

See the Authors file included with this program.

BUGS

There of course aren't any bugs, but if you find any, they should be sent to the mailing list: yum@lists.baseurl.org or filed in bugzilla.