get list of available updates without yum lock

[survient]

I'm looking for a method to print a list of available updates without locking the yum database. I notice that after an initial yum check-update any subsequent check-update commands executed shortly thereafter resolve much more quickly. Is this data cached and if so is there a way to pull from that cache without locking the yum database?

[dmnks]

Thank you for the report. However, please note that this project has been deprecated and is no longer maintained upstream. Please consider migrating to DNF which is the successor of YUM. That said, I’ll close this issue now.