Managing Yum Plugins

“Yum is one of the most widely used package management tools,
but many users don’t know that Yum has a plugin system to extend
its capabilities. Let’s take a look at how to extend Yum to add
some very useful features.

“Yum is one of the most widely used package management tools,
but many users don’t know that Yum has a plugin system to extend
its capabilities. Let’s take a look at how to extend Yum to add
some very useful features.

“If you’re using Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL),
CentOS, or a number of other RPM-based systems, you are probably
very familiar with using Yum to install packages and update your
system. It’s very useful out of the box, so to speak, but it can be
extended to add even more functionality.

“Plugins are Python scripts/programs that extend Yum’s feature
set. They’re located under /usr/lib/yum-plugins, and the
configuration files live under /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/.”

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