why two sets of output for every yum package query?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Mon Jul 28 15:27:02 UTC 2008
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 09:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Look at the Repo line in each record. What you are seeing is the
> actual installed size (10M) versus the downloadable package size
> (4.4M). RPM packages are compressed. If the package wasn't
> installed, you'd only see the repo record.
oh, i noticed that, but has it *always* done it that way? i've just
never noticed that, and i'm *sure* i've done that kind of query
before.
rday
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