Yellow dog Updater, Modified
Yum (Yellow dog Updater, Modified) is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for RPM systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm.
| Tags | Software Distribution Software Distribution Tools Systems Administration |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Implementation | Python |
Recent releases
- 09 Sep 2004 10:15
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 10 May 2004 15:31
Changes: This release adds "yum [action] package.somearch" support for erase, remove, install, update, and upgrade. Ukrainian and Czech translations have been added. Some logging cleanups have been done. Miscellaneous bugs have been fixed.
- 17 Mar 2004 12:13
Changes: This release supports using comps and the rpmdb-$distro for faster access to already-on-disk headers rather than having to download all of them. A Spanish translation has been added. Repositories now have an enablegroups option. --exclude and --download-only have been added to the CLI. A lockfile bug with non EN locales has been fixed. A bootloader option to disable updating the bootloader after a kernel upgrade/install has been added. There are some minor documentation updates.
- 02 Feb 2004 08:58
Changes: This release adds lots of minor bugfixes and code cleanup which helps solve dependency resolutions issues on x86_64 machines using ix86 repositories. It fixes a race condition in locking and makes packages providing "kernel-modules" install-only. It adds Python 2.3 support and implements yum-arch --exclude.
- 21 Oct 2003 09:54
Changes: This release has updated Russian translations. A Yum HOWTO is referenced in the README. distroverpkg is fixed to look for something providing the name and not just the package with that name. Code was added for SPARC 64, PPC 64, and x86_64. There is better error reporting for file and other conflicts. Modes work better for yum list and yum info in the even it's being run as a user and the headers haven't been updated recently. Yum provides/search are now more intuitive with the use of wildcards. A progress bar has been added. There are many other misc. bugfixes and cleanups.
