[Yum] "yum -yq --security check-update" spouting lots of text?

[David Burns]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:54 AM, James Antill <james-yum at and.org> wrote:

> David Burns <tdbtdb at gmail.com> writes:
> > I thought -q meant 'no output'. Recently yum -q has started spewing the
> > following garbage, can anyone tell me why?
> [...]
> > # yum -yq --security check-update 2>/dev/null
>
>  Use:
>
> # yum -y -q --security check-update 2>/dev/null
>
> ...and it'll work.
>

Thanks for the suggestion, but it still outputs garbage.

# yum -y -q --security check-update 2>/dev/null

aalib.x86_64
1.4.0-5.el5.rf
rpmforge
[many lines of output elided.....]
udftools.x86_64
1.0.0b3-3.el5.rf
rpmforge
xvidcore.x86_64


>
>  Long story:
>
>  The problem is that options can only be parsed after initial
> configuration has been setup, but some options have to be parsed
> before initial configuration (Eg. -c --noplugins --installroot
> etc. ... and -q).
>
>  The way we work around this is to have a custom option parser for
> just those special options. However that special option parser doesn't
> understand that "-yq" means "-y -q" (or -yc blah.conf etc.).
>

Actually, the -y is not required, since this operation does not change the
state of anything. It's just supposed to succeed or fail depending on
whether there are security-related updates available or not. It never asks
for permission to change something, because it never changes anything.

# yum -q --security check-update 2>/dev/null

aalib.x86_64
1.4.0-5.el5.rf
rpmforge
blas.x86_64
3.1.1-1.el5.rf
[bla bla bla]

I have this running in a cron job on several machines running centos 5.5.
Only on this one machine does this command spam me with this useless output.
I thought at first it might be a new buggy version of yum-security, but the
same versions are running on my other machines where the command works
correctly.

# rpm -qa|grep -i yum
yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5
yum-security-1.1.16-14.el5.centos.1
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-3.el5.centos
yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-14.el5.centos.1
yum-3.2.22-26.el5.centos
yum-priorities-1.1.16-14.el5.centos.1

Somehow the configuration has become corrupt? It seems to have to do with
the rpmforge repo, when I disable that one everything works properly:

# yum -q --disablerepo=rpmforge --security check-update 2>/dev/null
#

I'd love to point the finger at a bug in yum-security or the config of the
rpmforge repo, but both of these are present (same version) and working fine
on all my machines except this one.

Okay, something was definitely corrupt in my rpmforge repo config. I
uninstalled rpmforge and then reinstalled it, and the problem went away.

Thanks y'all
Dave
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