how to review info for yum updates?

[Tony Nelson]

At 5:43 PM -0500 7/14/07, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 11:11 -0300, Thomas TS wrote:
>> Joe Smith wrote:
>> > I'm uncomfortable with the level of information readily available when
>> > an update comes down the pipe. What can be done to improve the situation?
>> >
>> > I'm not trying to second-guess the folks who push the updates; I'm
>> > amazed at the high quality of the updates, but I would feel a lot
>> > better if I had a better idea of what was being installed and why.
>> >
>> > Ok, so something tells me there is an update available for gimp. How can
>> > I review the purpose and scope of the update, preferably before I tell
>> > yum to go ahead and install it?
>> >
>> There is a way to just download the updates but not really install them ?
>>
>If there is a way I have yet to find it.  What is it?

Install the yum-downloadonly plugin.
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