On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > Alan Evans wrote: >> Normal, non-bold, means that >> the package is to be reinstalled because the available package is the >> same version as the installed package. In such a case, I'm curious why >> yum thinks it needs to be updated at all. > > It's not. Read the man page again. I quote: > > color_list_installed_reinstall > The colorization/highlighting for pacakges in list/info > installed which is the same version as the latest > available package with the same name and arch. Default is > ‘normal’. See color_list_installed_older for possible > values. > > (and yes, "pacakages" is verbatim from the man page). I read that > (disregarding the typo and mixing of singles and plurals) as "items > shown in normal text are already installed and current." Perhaps I'm > wrong. Isn't that what I said? (And I noticed the pacakges typo, too. It's copy/pasted all over the man page.) Why would yum update [no qualifiers] list something at all if it was "already installed and current"? But in my case, it wasn't even true. The already-installed package was version 1.2.1 (I checked) and the updated version (now installed) is 1.2.2. All 17 other packages which were updated were, in my estimation, the same situation. But they were all listed bold. And still I don't understand why PackageKit was internally conflicted about how many updates were actually available. I suppose I could try reinstalling the old (1.2.1) versions of libX11[i586|x86_64] and see if my system does this again. But I'd only do it if somebody was interested in pursuing this and gathering data. By myself, I lack the knowledge of what needs to be looked at throughout the process. -Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
