Interactive YUM updates

README.md

Interactive YUM Updates

This script allows you to select certain packages for update. It is useful if you having trouble running a single yum update and have a lot of packages to update (which is very common on production systems) or you want to delay the update of some packages but want the rest as soon as possible.

Usage

Just run the yum-interactive-update.rb and select updates you want to apply. You can specify the updates by their index (appears before the package name). The UI accepts a range of indexes in ruby notation syntax, FROM..TO (e.g. 12..25). The range is closed at the both end that means if you select 12..25 packages indexed with 12 and 25 will be included into the updateable package list.

Note: It's clear from the name of the script but it need an emphasizement: this script can only work with YUM package manager (that is included in e.g. CentOS, Fedora, CloudLinux, etc).

License

This package is licensed under the terms of CreativeCommons BY-SA 4.0 license.

Copyright (c) 2019 Gabor Garami. Some rights reserved.

yum-interactive-update.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

lines = %x{/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 list updates}.split(/[\r\n]+/)
#lines = File.read('up.txt').split(/[\r\n]+/)
lines.shift # No header pls

updates = lines.map { |line| line.split(/\s+/).first }.compact

exit if updates.empty?

puts 'Available updates:'
puts "=" * 40
updates.each_with_index do |pkg, i|
  puts sprintf("%3d) %s", i, pkg)
end
puts '=' * 40
print 'Select applicable updates (e.g.: 1, 2..15): '
answer = gets.strip.split(/,\s*/)

if answer.first == '-1'
  exit
end

indexes = []

answer.each do |v|
  if v.match(/^\d+\.\.\d+$/)
    indexes += eval(v).to_a
  else
   indexes << v.to_i
  end
end
packages = indexes.map { |i| updates[i] }

puts
puts " >> Selected packages: #{packages.join(', ')}"
system('/bin/yum', 'install', *packages)