Re: "yum -yq --security check-update" spouting lots of text?

James Antill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Burns <[email protected]> writes:

> I thought -q meant 'no output'. Recently yum -q has started spewing the
> following garbage, can anyone tell me why?

[...]
> # yum -yq --security check-update 2>/dev/null

 Use:

# yum -y -q --security check-update 2>/dev/null

...and it'll work.

 Long story:

 The problem is that options can only be parsed after initial
configuration has been setup, but some options have to be parsed
before initial configuration (Eg. -c --noplugins --installroot
etc. ... and -q).

 The way we work around this is to have a custom option parser for
just those special options. However that special option parser doesn't
understand that "-yq" means "-y -q" (or -yc blah.conf etc.).

-- 
James Antill -- [email protected]
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.29
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.