Message when running yum update

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On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 11:00 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/30/2012 09:48 PM, Tim wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 21:57 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm guessing the subscription-manager yum plugin is for RHEL and
>>> shouldn't be installed on a Fedora machine.  And Red Hat does want to
>>> validate that your RHEL subscription before using them for updates.
>>
>> For what it's worth, this situation is yet another example of why you do
>> not "install everything" from a repo, and why such an option is a bad
>> idea for install discs.  Plenty of packages are useless to most users,
>> some packages are mutually exclusive with others, some will cause
>> problems all by themselves...
>>
> I did NOT install everything from a repo!!!
> As I already stated, it was not installed in the
> first place when I had I nstalled the fc16 DVD,
> because it was not on it (DVD). Ever since I
> have been doing update every other day.
> 2 days ago?? yum -y update must have brought
> it in.   -y!!!! BAD IDEA!!!

# rpm -q --last subscription-manager

will tell you when it was last updated/installed if you haven't removed it yet.

Possibly

# grep subscription-manager /var/log/yum*

might still tell you.

John