I'm not sure why rhn-applet-tui doesn't accept your preferences. You should file a bug about that. I'll mention it to the maintainer as well.
What about using up2date -l? It doesn't install anything, uses the up2date preferences set with up2date-config, and prints a similar output: [tfox@goofy tfox]$ up2date -l Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-8.0... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-8.0... ######################################## Fetching rpm headers... ##################################### Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- fetchmail 5.9.0 21 On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:23:29PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for the quick reply. > > It appears that rhn-applet-tui does not use the .rhn-applet.conf > "IgnorePackages" line. Here is what I did for a test on a RH 8.0 system: > > 1. Replaced gnuplot with gnuplot-3.7.1-17 from RH 7.3 > 2. Started Xwindows > 3. Looked at the window from rhn-applet-gui. It stated there was a newer > version of gnuplot, as it should. > 4. I instructed rhn-applet-gui to ignore gnuplot. > 5. Tested rhn-applet-gui again -- it showed no packages needed updating > 6. Exited out of Xwindows > 7. Looked at ~/.rhn-applet.conf > Here is the relevant line: > IgnoredPackages=gnuplot > 8. ran rhn-applet-tui > Here are the results: > $ rhn-applet-tui > could not figure out kernel > > The following is a list of outdated packages on your system: > > Name Version Release > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > gnuplot 3.7.2 1 > > (The kernel message is expected because I am running 2.4.19) > > 9. Help ... rhn-applet-tui doesn't seem to ignore packages that it should. > > I am not using up2date because this sysem will become a configuration > controlled computer and several tests will need to be run and checked both > before and after any updates are applied. (I guess if rhn-applet-tui won't > work, I could use up2date with --dry-run or --nodownload, but rhn-applet-tui > is just what I need.) > > Richard > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ============ > > rhn-applet-tui and rhn-applet-gui use the .rhn-applet.conf file in > your home directory to know which pkgs to ignore. (different > preferences per user) > > Why don't you use up2date -u to update your system? Then > you can use up2date-config to configure all the options, > including which pkgs to ignore. > > Cheers, > Tammy > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:24:39AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > For a system that usually does not run XWindows, I would like to use > > rhn-applet-tui to see if there are any updates available on the RH 8.0 system. > > rhn-applet-tui seems to work well from cron. I have one question: > > > > How to I tell rhn-applet-tui to ignore certain rpm packages? (This can easily > > be done using rhn-applet-gui but I am not running XWindows. Can I somehow get > > rhn-applet-tui to use the rhn-applet-gui exclude list?) > > > > Richard > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list --
