5.4. Yum Plug-ins

⁠5.4. Yum Plug-ins

Yum provides plug-ins that extend and enhance its operations. Certain plug-ins are installed by default. Yum always informs you which plug-ins, if any, are loaded and active whenever you call any yum command. For example:

~]# yum info yum
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
[output truncated]

Note that the plug-in names which follow Loaded plugins are the names you can provide to the --disableplugin=plugin_name option.

⁠5.4.1. Enabling, Configuring, and Disabling Yum Plug-ins

To enable Yum plug-ins, ensure that a line beginning with plugins= is present in the [main] section of /etc/yum.conf, and that its value is set to 1:

plugins=1

You can disable all plug-ins by changing this line to plugins=0.

Disabling all plug-ins is not advised

Disabling all plug-ins is not advised because certain plug-ins provide important Yum services. Disabling plug-ins globally is provided as a convenience option, and is generally only recommended when diagnosing a potential problem with Yum.

Every installed plug-in has its own configuration file in the /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/ directory. You can set plug-in specific options in these files. For example, here is the refresh-packagekit plug-in's refresh-packagekit.conf configuration file:

[main]
enabled=1

Plug-in configuration files always contain a [main] section (similar to Yum's /etc/yum.conf file) in which there is (or you can place if it is missing) an enabled= option that controls whether the plug-in is enabled when you run yum commands.

If you disable all plug-ins by setting enabled=0 in /etc/yum.conf, then all plug-ins are disabled regardless of whether they are enabled in their individual configuration files.

If you merely want to disable all Yum plug-ins for a single yum command, use the --noplugins option.

If you want to disable one or more Yum plug-ins for a single yum command, add the --disableplugin=plugin_name option to the command. For example, to disable the presto plug-in while updating a system, type:

~]# yum update --disableplugin=presto

The plug-in names you provide to the --disableplugin= option are the same names listed after the Loaded plugins line in the output of any yum command. You can disable multiple plug-ins by separating their names with commas. In addition, you can match multiple plug-in names or shorten long ones by using glob expressions:

~]# yum update --disableplugin=presto,refresh-pack*