Disable automatic download of updates

ml at sudhirkhanger.com ml at sudhirkhanger.com
Sun Oct 19 08:12:34 UTC 2014


On Saturday, October 18, 2014 11:16:30 PM jd1008 wrote:
> Also, having used yum erase, I have had catastrophic consequences,
> because yum will remove dependencies also, which other packages
> which you might not want removed.
> 
> For example, just try to
> 
> yum erase bash
> 
> and see what happens

Removing bash would obviously lead to catastrophic consequences.

yum remove or yum erase are safe in my opinion. I also use 
"clean_requirements_on_remove".

"The clean_requirements_on_remove configuration changes the behaviour of this 
command to also remove packages that are only dependencies of this package."

Here is the difference. yum remove won't remove dependencies unless you use 
something like  clean_requirements_on_remove or remove_leaf_only.

Dependencies Resolved

========================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                 Arch                      Version                               
Repository                                                Size
========================================================================================================================================================================
Removing:
 google-chrome-stable                    x86_64                    
38.0.2125.104-1                       @/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64                    
173 M

Transaction Summary
========================================================================================================================================================================
Remove  1 Package

And when using  clean_requirements_on_remove

Dependencies Resolved

========================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                       Arch                    Version                             
Repository                                              Size
========================================================================================================================================================================
Removing:
 google-chrome-stable                          x86_64                  
38.0.2125.104-1                     @/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64                  
173 M
Removing for dependencies:
 gdbm-devel                                    x86_64                  
1.10-7.fc20                         @fedora                                                 
42 k
 libdb-devel                                   x86_64                  
5.3.28-1.fc20                       @fedora                                                
126 k
 libpng12                                      x86_64                  
1.2.50-6.fc20                       @updates                                               
442 k
 perl-B-Lint                                   noarch                  
1.17-291.fc20                       @fedora                                                 
31 k
 perl-CGI                                      noarch                  
3.64-1.fc20                         @updates                                               
700 k
 perl-CPAN                                     noarch                  
2.00-290.fc20                       @updates                                               
758 k
 perl-Class-ISA                                noarch                  
0.36-1012.fc20                      @fedora                                                 
13 k
 perl-Digest-SHA                               x86_64                  
1:5.85-5.fc20                       @updates                                               
110 k
 perl-Env                                      noarch                  
1.04-291.fc20                       @fedora                                                 
27 k
 perl-ExtUtils-Install                         noarch                  
1.59-290.fc20                       @updates                                                
74 k
 perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker                       noarch                  
6.72-3.fc20                         @updates                                               
640 k
 perl-ExtUtils-Manifest                        noarch                  
1.63-1.fc20                         @fedora                                                 
84 k
 perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS                         noarch                  
1:3.18-292.fc20                     @updates                                               
174 k
 perl-FCGI                                     x86_64                  
1:0.74-10.fc20                      @fedora                                                 
87 k
 perl-File-CheckTree                           noarch                  
4.42-291.fc20                       @fedora                                                 
29 k
 perl-Locale-Codes                             noarch                  
3.26-3.fc20                         @fedora                                                
2.1 M
 perl-Locale-Maketext                          noarch                  
1.25-1.fc20                         @updates                                               
169 k
 perl-Module-Pluggable                         noarch                  
1:4.80-292.fc20                     @updates                                                
54 k
 perl-Pod-Checker                              noarch                  
1.60-291.fc20                       @fedora                                                 
59 k
 perl-Pod-LaTeX                                noarch                  
0.61-292.fc20                       @fedora                                                 
84 k
 perl-Pod-Parser                               noarch                  
1.61-3.fc20                         @fedora                                                
271 k
 perl-Pod-Plainer                              noarch                  
1.03-6.fc20                         @fedora                                                
5.7 k
 perl-Sys-Syslog                               x86_64                  
0.33-4.fc20                         @fedora                                                 
93 k
 perl-Test-Simple                              noarch                  
1.001002-1.fc20                     @fedora                                                
404 k
 perl-Text-Soundex                             x86_64                  
3.04-291.fc20                       @fedora                                                 
29 k
 perl-Text-Unidecode                           noarch                  
0.04-21.fc20                        @fedora                                                
397 k
 perl-XML-LibXML                               x86_64                  
1:2.0105-1.fc20                     @fedora                                                
968 k
 perl-XML-NamespaceSupport                     noarch                  
1.11-12.fc20                        @fedora                                                 
28 k
 perl-XML-SAX                                  noarch                  
0.99-11.fc20                        @fedora                                                
125 k
 perl-XML-SAX-Base                             noarch                  
1.08-10.fc20                        @fedora                                                
176 k
 perl-autodie                                  noarch                  
2.20-4.fc20                         @fedora                                                
181 k
 perl-devel                                    x86_64                  
4:5.18.4-290.fc20                   @updates                                               
1.9 M
 pyparsing                                     noarch                  
2.0.1-1.fc20                        @fedora                                                
372 k
 qt3                                           x86_64                  
3.3.8b-58.fc20                      @updates                                                
11 M
 redhat-lsb                                    x86_64                  
4.1-21.1.fc20                       @updates                                               
0.0  
 redhat-lsb-core                               x86_64                  
4.1-21.1.fc20                       @updates                                                
45 k
 redhat-lsb-cxx                                x86_64                  
4.1-21.1.fc20                       @updates                                               
0.0  
 redhat-lsb-desktop                            x86_64                  
4.1-21.1.fc20                       @updates                                               
0.0  
 redhat-lsb-languages                          x86_64                  
4.1-21.1.fc20                       @updates                                               
814  
 redhat-lsb-printing                           x86_64                  
4.1-21.1.fc20                       @updates                                               
0.0  
 redhat-lsb-submod-multimedia                  x86_64                  
4.1-21.1.fc20                       @updates                                               
0.0  
 redhat-lsb-submod-security                    x86_64                  
4.1-21.1.fc20                       @updates                                               
0.0  
 smartmontools                                 x86_64                  
1:6.2-6.fc20                        @updates                                               
1.5 M
 spax                                          x86_64                  
1.5.2-8.fc20                        @fedora                                                
590 k
 ssmtp                                         x86_64                  
2.64-11.fc20                        @updates                                                
75 k
 systemtap-sdt-devel                           x86_64                  
2.6-2.fc20                          @updates                                               
152 k
 wget                                          x86_64                  
1.14-12.fc20                        @updates                                               
2.0 M

Transaction Summary
========================================================================================================================================================================
Remove  1 Package (+47 Dependent packages)

Regards,
Sudhir.


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