[wplug] A silly question about yum(8)

John Lewis oflameo2 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 19 15:48:54 EST 2014


I don't think you are missing anything. The bold type is just to give 
give more attention to the packages about to be updated. Then yum is 
stating the obvious.

On 02/19/2014 02:15 PM, Pat Barron wrote:
> This is just bugging me...
>
> Sometimes when I run "yum update", and it shows me the list of packages
> it's planning to update, some of the package names are listed in bold
> type.  I'm not sure what this means.  The man page seems to say that
> this indicates a package that is installed that is older than the latest
> available version - but if I'm doing "yum update", then all of the
> packages it's going to update are older than the latest available
> version, that's why it's updating them....
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> Thanks,
> --Pat.
>
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