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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