[ale] Yum automatic updates

[pizza at shaftnet.org (Stuffed Crust)]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 10:30:35AM -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> @LINES=`yum list installed`
> 
> foreach my $ref (@LINES) {
>   $ref =~ m/$(\w+)\s/;
>    next unless $1;
>    system "yum update $1";
> }

Wouldn't a straight "yum -y update" accomplish the same thing, and 
considerably faster to boot, since it wouldn't try to check for updated 
headers with every iteration of the loop?

 - Pizza
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