On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 16:39 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > 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. > yum -d 1 read about debuglevel in the man page -sv
