Background: - I'm an old UNIX fogey. - This is my first YUM post. - I run Yum to update my Fedora installations. Usually from a local mirror, using localupdate. - I save a transcript of each YUM session (an audit trail) Yum produces a *lot* of output. Most of it is not worthwhile. For example, my FC4 update, reflecting changes over the period June 18 to July 2, generated 6.5M of transcript! Furthermore, the transcript is littered with ^M (CR) characters. (These seem to mean, essentially, discard anything to the left on this line.) This is not a UNIX convention. CR is not guaranteed to do anything on a UNIX standard out. Visual programs may use curses (or raw termcap/terminfo) to find out what to use to get this effect. In my environment the answer would be: nothing (this terminal's termcap/terminfo entries give no such capability). Is there a way to turn off this progress indication? The manpage does not list one. For my purposes, the progress shown by "rpm -iv" is OK. It does not involve CR. The amount of extra output is modest.
