[Yum] Feature request ... or How to.

[James Antill]

John Reiser <jreiser at bitwagon.com> writes:

>> yum list installed
>> 
>> it even tells you which repo the pkgs came from.
>
> The formatting is not friendly to scripts.  It's OK to introduce
> a line break to insure columnar format for a terminal,
> but output to a plain file should put all the info for one package
> onto just one line.
>
>   $ yum list installed  > yum.out  # redirect stdout to an IF_REG file
>   $ more yum.out
>  [[snip]]
> NetworkManager.x86_64              1:0.7.2.995-2.git20100225.fc11
>                                                               @updates
>  [[snip]]
>
> Notice the line break between the version "...fc11" and the repo 'updates'.
> This makes the info hard to parse using 'read' in bash, for instance.
> Also there are mystery repos such as 'installed':
> ConsoleKit.x86_64                  0.3.0-8.fc11               installed

 Note that yum itself is not designed to be used like that, however
you can use:

% repoquery --pkgnarrow=installed --qf '%{name}.%{arch} %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release} %{ui_from_repo}' -a

-- 
James Antill -- james at fedoraproject.org
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