[Yum] yum list available weird output

[Gerry Reno]

Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 5 May 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
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>> Ok, I am looking at repoquery but some of the totals do not seem to 
>> add up. For example:
>> repoquery -q --pkgnarrow=updates -a | wc -l
>> 498
>>
>> Now I would expect that when I do this:
>> for arch in i386 i586 i686 x86_64; do
>> repoquery -q --pkgnarrow=updates --archlist=$arch | wc -l
>> done
>>
>> that the totals for all the arches would equal the 'all' total. But 
>> they don't. The arches totalled separately add up to more than 100 
>> packages more than the 'all' total. How can that be?
>>
>
> 1. why are you doing each arch separately?
I'm exploring like I do with every new tool. I just thought I'd check 
each arch and then I did the -a 'all' total and when they didn't match I 
thought I'd ask about that.
> 2. what ver of yum-utils is this?
1.1.19-1.fc10
> 3. what is your overall goal for this script?
Nothing specific at the moment. I'm learning what can be done with 
repoquery right now.

Regards,
Gerry