fedora-easy-karma: reporting karma made very easy

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 4 18:58:40 UTC 2010



On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> said:
>> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Chris Adams wrote:
>>> Once upon a time, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> said:
>>>> run:
>>>>
>>>> yum list installed | grep updates-testing
>>>
>>> Would it be possible for yum to detect not-a-tty (or at least have a CLI
>>> option to the same effect), so that the output is not pretty-printed?
>>> Or is there another quick-and-easy way to get the same info?
>>>
>>> The above command gives me mostly useless output:
>>>
>>> # yum list installed | grep updates-testing
>>
>> What yum version is this and what plugins do you have installed?
>
> # yum list installed yum\*
> yum.noarch         3.2.25-1.fc12  @anaconda-InstallationRepo-200911081904.x86_64
> yum-metadata-parser.x86_64
>                   1.1.2-14.fc12  @anaconda-InstallationRepo-200911081904.x86_64
> yum-presto.noarch  0.6.2-1.fc12   @updates
> yum-utils.noarch   1.1.26-1.fc12  @updates
>
> It is a pretty-printing thing apparently.  Too-long fields result in a
> line wrap and space padding for column alignment (a too-long name.arch
> and version-release can end up with three lines for a single package).
>

gotcha - please file this one.

-sv



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