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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Using tee command with ablity to provide input for prompts Post 303007831 by Scott on Wednesday 22nd of November 2017 06:38:24 AM
Old 11-22-2017
If you provide the -y option to yum, you won't be asked about it. In case there are multiple questions (such as when it's also asking you about GPG keys), you may consider piping yum through yes, or creating a response file and piping that through yum.
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yum-changelog

YUM-CHANGELOG(1)						   User Manuals 						  YUM-CHANGELOG(1)

NAME

       yum-changelog

SYNOPSIS

       The yum-changelog package

DESCRIPTION

       yum-changelog(1)  is  a	Yum  plugin  for viewing package changelogs before/after updating.  yum will invoke yum-changelog(1) plugin if the
       --changelog option or the changelog command is used with yum.

OPTIONS

       --changelog
	      Show changelog delta of updated packages

COMMANDS

       changelog
	      Show changelog data of packages listed (same format as the list command).  The first argument is required and is	either	"all"  for
	      all  the	changelog  entries,  a	date  for  the changelog entries since a specified point in time or a number for a given number of
	      changelog entries.

FILES

       /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/changelog.conf
	      The system wide configuration file. See yum-changelog.conf(5) for more information.

EXAMPLES

       # yum changelog 2008-Jan yum*
       Listing changelogs since: 2008-01-18
       yum-versionlock-1.1.11-1.fc8.noarch	installed
       * Wed Jan 30 17:00:00 2008 Tim Lauridsen <timlau@fedoraproject.org>
       - mark as 1.1.11
       changelog stats. 33 pkgs, 12 source pkgs, 1 changelog
       # yum update ktechlab --changelog
       Loading "changelog" plugin
       Setting up Update Process
       Setting up repositories
       [..]
       Resolving Dependencies
       --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
       ---> Package ktechlab.i386 0:0.3-6 set to be updated
       --> Running transaction check

       Changes in packages about to be updated:

       ktechlab - 0.3-6.i386
       * Wed Nov 22 23:00:00 2006 Chitlesh Goorah - 0.3-6
       - Rebuilt due to new gpsim-devel release

BUGS

       There are of course no bugs, but should you find any, you should first consult the FAQ section on  http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq  and	if
       unsuccessful  in  finding a resolution contact the mailing list: yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org.  To file a bug use http://bugzilla.redhat.com
       for Fedora/RHEL/Centos related bugs and http://yum.baseurl.org/report for all other bugs.

AVAILABILITY

       yum-changelog is available via:
       # yum install yum-changelog

AUTHORS

	      Chitlesh Goorah <chitlesh@fedoraproject.org>
	      Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@laiskiainen.org>
	      James Antill <james@and.org>

SEE ALSO

       yum(1)

								 08 February 2007						  YUM-CHANGELOG(1)
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