When I do a yum search and included among the results are packages I've already installed yum reports both the version from the repository and installed version separately. For instance for a program 'foo' at version 1 available from the repository 'rep' I get foo 1.0 rep Program Description Then comes a long listing of other packages containing the word foo followed by. foo 1.0 installed Program Description The problem is that it is very difficult to tell if foo is installed when looking at the copy from rep since the information that it is installed doesn't appear until the very end (along with an arbitrary number of other packages). One essentially needs to memorize the entire list of installed packages and mentally exclude those from the list of uninstalled packages. >From reading the man page I can't seem to find any functionality to help with this. Not knowing precisely how yum works in retrieving the the package information there are two possible ways I can think of to help with this information. 1) Add an option such as --excludeInstalled to search, this function would prevent any installed packages from being returned in the search (ie the copies of foo in both rep and installed would be excluded). 2) When a package is shown check if it is installed on the local system, if it is display that information, either through (*) foo 1.0 rep or foo 1.0 rep,installed The second version has the advantage of potentially being extended to cases where multiple repos contain the same package, ie foo 1.0 rep,rep2, installed though I can see a number of issues with that in general. Of course both 1 and 2 assume that it is possible for yum to determine if the package from the repository is the same as the one installed on the system. I was hoping someone would have some feedback on the usability or the feasibility of these ideas (or whether functionality that solves this issue already exists). thank you, Aaron
