[wplug] A silly question about yum(8)

[Gary Pitman]

Not sure why it would be already downloaded unless you're running yum-updatesd or whatever it's called these days

http://serverfault.com/questions/465528/potential-issues-with-yum-update-rpm

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> On Feb 19, 2014, at 6:09 PM, Pat Barron <pat at lectroid.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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