[wplug] A silly question about yum(8)

[Pat Barron]

The interesting thing is, it's not all of the packages that get 
displayed in bold type - just a few, and not all the time.

I think Stanley was on the right track, there are times that yum does 
things with package names to make them visually stand out for various 
reasons, though the info he posted was with regard to package names 
either in bold, or dim, and colorized.  The ones I'm seeing aren't 
colorized, just bold.  The man page for "yum.conf" says that bold is the 
default for "packages in list/info installed which are older than the 
latest available package with the same name and arch".  But, of course - 
if you're using "yum update", then all the packages listed are older 
than the latest available, that is why we are upgrading them....  I'm 
sort of wondering if this is telling me that the upgrade is not from the 
most recent previous version, but rather one before that.  (Like, if I 
have version "1" of some package, and yum is going to upgrade it to 
version "3" - but there was a version "2" in between that was never 
installed, and that we're skipping over.)  But I just can't figure it 
out from looking at the docs...

All the packages end up upgrading just fine, so this is really more a 
curiosity than anything else....  It just bugs me when I don't 
understand what the system is doing....  ;-)

--Pat.

On 2/19/2014 3:48 PM, John Lewis wrote:
> 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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