[Yum] RFE: check-update formatting

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 19:14, Damian Menscher wrote:
> When I do a check-update I get:
> 
> Name                                 Arch   Version         Repo
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> aalib                                i386   1.4.0-0.fdr.0.6.rc5.rh90 fedora-stable
> dia                                  i386   1:0.91-0.fdr.5  fedora-stable
> faad2                                i386   1.1-0.fdr.3.rh90 fedora-stable
> flac                                 i386   1.1.0-0.fdr.10.rh90 fedora-stable
> ....
> 
> Note that the formatting is ugly.  The "Name" field has too much
> space, while the "Version" field doesn't have enough, causing the
> "Repo" field to not line up.  Yes, I'm being picky, but better
> formatting would be nice.

Well the name field is longer b/c there are LOTS of packages with MUCH
longer names.


but I'll what I can do about lining up the other stuff better in 80chars


> More importantly, could you show the currently-installed version as
> well as the new version?  That'd make it easier to see whether a
> repo (fedora, for example) is updating something I already got from
> it, or if it wants to update something that was provided by RH.  I'm
> likely to update packages that are already non-RedHat, but I don't
> usually want to blow away a RedHat package for a Fedora (or other
> repo) package.

well yum list installed will list out the installed packages for you.

-sv