[Yum] yum list available weird output

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Tue May 5 23:22:55 UTC 2009


Gerry Reno wrote:
> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 5 May 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> well, you don't need --archlist at all - it'll just work for all the 
>> arches that are compatible with the system it is running on.
>>
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> okay
>> -sv
> I think maybe the -a is only returning one of the available updates 
> instead of all the available updates.  Like if there is an x86_64 and 
> an i586 version available, you only get one not both with -a.  I would 
> think you should get both though.
>

Ok, here's another question:
I do this:
repoquery -qa --pkgnarrow=installed --archlist=i386
<returns not just i386 but others such as 'noarch' as well>

The --archlist isn't restricting the list.  Is this a bug?

Regards,
Gerry


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