On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:10:07 -0500 seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 08:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > according to the docs, > > > > $ yum list installed > > > > will list the packages installed on my system. but running that > > will, every time, take several seconds to scan my list of servers, > > find updated packages and download headers. why? based on the > > docs, this should be(it seems) equivalent to nothing more than "rpm > > -qa". (in fact, the list of installed packages lists them as coming > > from the repo "db", which i assume means database). > > > > if that's the case, why would asking for a list of installed > > packages require any consultation of the yum repositories? > > The extended command line options (like installed, available, etc) are > not parsed until after the initial state is setup. Reading the header > lists is part of the initial state setup. > > It might be reasonable to parse out the quick-cases and/or change > where the extended options are handled, but it's not going to be > terribly immediate on my list. > > -sv Wouldn't "yum -C list installed" provide the desired speed?
