yum and/or yumex package updateing?

Dan grinnz at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 15:03:57 UTC 2006


William Case wrote:
> Hi; a new feature suggestion?
>
> Is there a way that yumex can be setup so that it doesn't update every
> time I open it?  I would like to be able to use it, particularly yumex,
> to look at what packages I have, what's available and what I might want
> to remove.  Every time I flip in and out of those lists I don't need an
> update.
>
> I am not sure how to do this without losing the security of getting the
> very latest updates?  Maybe a right or centre mouse click or a special
> accelerator key?
>
> Regards Bill
>
>   
You can set in preferences for it not to refresh on startup. This 
probably isn't what you're looking for though, as you still would need 
to go to the Repos tab and hit Refresh before you'll have anything to 
browse.
-Dan




More information about the users mailing list