[wplug] A silly question about yum(8)

[Pat Barron]

Thanks for this - I will have to check the package cache next time I see 
this, to determine if that's really what is going on.  I don't run 
yum-updatesd, but I am wondering if maybe PackageKit is downloading 
things behind my back, "for my convenience"....  ;-)

--Pat.

On 2/19/2014 6:24 PM, Gary Pitman wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> 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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