Strange output of yum history info X

王超 comphuse7 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 03:38:42 UTC 2014


Actually, I unplugged the ethernet when yum started to rebuild delta. I
don't think it could be the downloading progress since the first warning
message shows that the update/installation had already begun.

Regards,
Wang Chao


On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:09 AM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 8:54 PM, 王超 <comphuse7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> After installing Fedora 20, I switched to tty2 and did a yum update
>> there. The charging splash screen took over the screen at some point and I
>> cannot switch to any other tty. So I waited until I believe the
>> transcaction is done and did a forced shutdown.
>>
>> I rebooted and everything seems fine except that the  output of yum
>> history info X (X is the update transcaction) is a bit strange:
>>
>> ......
>> Scriptlet output:
>> 1 warning: /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf created as
>> /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf.rpmnew
>> 2
>> 3 1k
>> 4 2k
>> 5 3k
>> 6 4k
>> 7 5k
>> 8 6k
>> ......
>>  93 91k
>> 94 92k
>> 95 93k
>> 96 94k
>> 97 95k
>> 98 96k
>> history info
>>
>> What does that "1k 2k ... 96k" part mean? Do I need to fix something?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Wang Chao
>>>>
>
> ​Well, if you could have observed the progress of yum update while
> it was taking place, you would have seen the yum uses the
> cursor package to display the progress of the download of a particular
> component of the update.
> Yum is usually downloading 4 components (packages) at a time, and
> shows the progress in amount of bytes (or K bytes or M bytes) transferred
> once every second or so.
> So, in the output, you are seeing that progress of a package, which is
> yum history displays as the number of the package in the download sequence,
> followed by how many bytes were transferred.
> ​For example packages 93 to 98 were being downloaded simultaneously
> (separate threads???) and the progress of the TOTAL transfer for these
> packages gets displayed in the form you see.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
>
>
>
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