why two sets of output for every yum package query?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Mon Jul 28 13:58:50 UTC 2008


  i don't recall seeing this behaviour before:

$ yum info coreutils
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
Name       : coreutils
Arch       : i386
Version    : 6.10
Release    : 27.fc9
Size       : 10 M
Repo       : installed
Summary    : The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts
URL        : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
License    : GPLv3+
Description: These are the GNU core utilities.  This package is the combination of the
           : old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

Available Packages
Name       : coreutils
Arch       : i386
Version    : 6.10
Release    : 27.fc9
Size       : 4.4 M
Repo       : updates
Summary    : The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts
URL        : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
License    : GPLv3+
Description: These are the GNU core utilities.  This package is the combination of the
           : old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

  this seems to be happening no matter which installed package i
query.  thoughts?

rday

p.s.  this is on a freshly-installed and totally updated F9.
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