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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Set the error level to num, where num is a number, generally between 0 and
10. If the value is 0, print only critical errors. If it is 1, print all errors. Values
greater than 1 mean print more errors, if there are any.
--enablerepo=repoid
Enable the specified repository that is marked as disabled (enable=0)inthe
configuration file. This allows the repository to be used for this operation.
The configuration option is enabled.
--exclude=package
Exclude the specified package from updates on all repositories. package can
be given as a name or a glob. The configuration option is exclude.
-h, --help
Display a help message and exit.
--installroot=root
Specify an alternative root for package installation. All packages will be
installed relative to root. The configuration option is installroot.
--obsoletes
Enable obsoletes processing logic, taking into consideration packages that are
obsoleted by other packages in the repository. Meaningful only with the yum
update command. The configuration option is obsoletes.
-R [min]
Set the maximum amount of time in minutes that yum will wait before
performing a command.
--rss-filename=filename
Use filename as the output file for the generate-rss command. The configura-
tion option is rss-filename.
-t, --tolerant
Keep going (be ...
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