[Yum-devel] transaction listing

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 09:22 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 10:44:53AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > Very nice output; definitely more readable.  How will long package
> > > names and versions be handled?  wrapped, truncated, push the edge of
> > > output, etc?
> > Truncated. Otherwise you end up with a really ugly display.
> 
> Hmmmm. I know you're opposed to screen-scraping, but there ought to be some
> way to ask to show full names and versions. This'd be especially important
> in the case of long package names like selinux-policy-targeted and
> selinux-policy-targeted-sources (or something even longer) -- the truncation
> could actually cut off the part that distinguishes which package is getting
> installed.

this is where you should use plugins.

a pre-transaction plugin should let you scrape out that data.

-sv