Message when running yum update

[JD]

On 06/30/2012 10:18 PM, inode0 wrote:
> 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
Yes, it came in on June 7th's yum update.
However, looking at my command history ( keep a VERY
large command history just for issues like this),
I see no deliberate install of subscription-manager and it's siblings.
It came with yum update. THAT should not have happened.