On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 22:32 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:09:04 -0400, Bill wrote: > > > > Coincidence. Yum cannot know that there are updates in repos which > > > are not enabled. > > > > > If the repos were enabled at one time and the data is still available it can be > > checked, > > It doesn't load the metadata. Not even the cached one. > > Unlike "yum list available", which even refreshes _disabled_ repos. > > > and of course yum knows when/if the package installed came from a repo > > which is not currently enabled. > > Only if the installation history is found in yumdb (see /usr/sbin/yumdb), > but it cannot rely on that information, and deleting yumdb doesn't change > the colours in "yum list installed" output. All I does is to compare the > installed package with the metadata for the enabled repos and detect the > different version. Then it prints the package in yellow, not in > red. Additionally, it looks at yumdb to find out from which repo the > installed package came from and prints out that detail. This is all fascinating, but what I come away with is "yum has a complex set of rules for color-coding its output, but the developers can't be bothered documenting them". poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
