Output of "yum list installed"

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Jun 22 20:11:07 UTC 2009


Tony Nelson wrote:
> On 09-06-19 14:38:35, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> I notice that some lines in the output of "yum list installed" are
>>> highlighted in red. There doesn't seem to be any mention of this in
>> the
>>> manual. Does anyone know what it means?
>>>
>>> Highlighting is useful as a visual clue, but if the info is
>> meaningful
>>> it should also be indicated in such a way that a filter could use
>> it.
>> I believe those are the packages for which updates exist.
> 
> Bold means an update is available.  Blue (won't show up here) means it 
> is an available update.  Red means not in any repo.  I don't know what 
> yellow means.  I don't know if there are other colors.
> 
After looking at this a third time, I think you mean "not in any *enabled* repo" 
since some of the packages came from non-fedora origins.

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