On Tue, 27 May 2008 10:03:49 +0200, denis wrote: > Hi, > > Red Hat recently updated YUM from 3.0.1 (RHEL5) to 3.2.8 (RHEL5.2), and > along came changes.. > > previously a "yum -d0 search redhat-lsb" would display results like > this: " > redhat-lsb.i386 3.1-12.2.EL rhel-x86_64-serv > redhat-lsb.x86_64 3.1-12.2.EL rhel-x86_64-serv > redhat-lsb.i386 3.1-12.3.EL rhel-x86_64-serv > redhat-lsb.x86_64 3.1-12.3.EL rhel-x86_64-serv > redhat-lsb.i386 3.1-12.3.EL installed redhat-lsb.x86_64 > 3.1-12.3.EL installed " > > The new output is: > " > redhat-lsb.x86_64 : LSB support for Red Hat Linux > > redhat-lsb.i386 : LSB support for Red Hat Linux redhat-lsb.x86_64 : LSB > support for Red Hat Linux redhat-lsb.i386 : LSB support for Red Hat > Linux > > redhat-lsb.i386 : LSB support for Red Hat Linux > > redhat-lsb.x86_64 : LSB support for Red Hat Linux > > " > (Whitespace intentionally included.) You might think it'd be better to line up the start of the summary, however this doesn't work well for packages like php-Pear-Str* (in Fedora). > Is there any way for me to get the old behaviour back? I really liked > that I could easily see all available packages, what repository they > were sourced from, and in the same list see installed versions of > matching packages. If you want to rely on the text output, the best way would be to write a simple application using the yum API as in: http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/useful-scripts/simple-search.py ...as I know we've tweaked the output slightly for both the search and list commands, since 3.2.8. > "yum list all" / "yum list available" sort of work, but do not deliver > the same recall when searching. -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx C String APIs use too much memory? ustr: length, ref count, size and read-only/fixed. Ave. 44% overhead over strdup(), for 0-20B strings http://www.and.org/ustr/ _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
