I think I saw where up2date is going away (perhaps browsing FC5 new and changed items) "yum update" will ask me if it wants to proceed. I have not seen a way to not have the prompt for Y/N? Is there a way to not prompt and just go ahead and do the update. Thanks, Jerry
On Friday 10 February 2006 08:38, Jerry Geis wrote:> I think I saw where up2date is going away (perhaps browsing FC5 new and > changed items) > > "yum update" will ask me if it wants to proceed. I have not seen a way > to not have > the prompt for Y/N? Is there a way to not prompt and just go ahead and > do the update. > > Thanks, > > Jerryyum --help or man yum both will tell you the answer. you obviously did not look very hard yum -y update Dennis
> "yum update" will ask me if it wants to proceed. I have not seen a way > to not have > the prompt for Y/N? Is there a way to not prompt and just go ahead and > do the update. >The documentation for yum shows a couple options to do this. use -y on the commandline, for an individual run, or set assume-yes in the appropriate config file for always-on. man yum, and/or read http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/yum/ -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety'' Benjamin Franklin 1775
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 09:38 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:> I think I saw where up2date is going away (perhaps browsing FC5 new and > changed items) > > "yum update" will ask me if it wants to proceed. I have not seen a way > to not have > the prompt for Y/N? Is there a way to not prompt and just go ahead and > do the update.use -y like: yum update -y yum install [package] -y man yum and you'll see the option. James