[Yum] typeout/line width: 79/80 chars

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Paul Franklin wrote:

> Has something changed in yum recently (in the last year, maybe)
> so that its format slightly altered?
>
> I am doing a "yum update" (with the fastestmirror plugin, if it matters)
> and I am noticing that the typeout or line width seems one character
> longer than it used to be.  It seems like it now is 80 characters then
> a return, and I'm guessing it used to be 79 characters then a return.
>
> For instance I am watching 600+ packages be downloaded as I update
> F11 for the first time, and after the "ETA" at the end of the line there is
> a <space> character, followed by the <return>.  I am guessing that it
> didn't used to be there (or something).  After the package is retrieved it
> (the line) still seems to be 80 characters followed by a return.
>
> This is not critical, obviously, but since so many hundreds of lines are
> typed out and since the download takes a while (1.2 GB for me, now),
> I almost always run my "yum update" in an emacs shell window, so that
> I can leave it alone and go do something else and then come back to it
> and scroll up or down as required, or search for error typeout, etc.  The
> new (?) yum behavior causes the lines to appear to be double spaced, as
> the trailing space ends up on the next line in my window.
>
> So I'm just wondering whether anybody else has noticed this -- or cares --
> or whether it is an anomaly, a conscious change, etc.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to read this.

what version of yum were you using before? what version are you using now?

-sv