Output of "yum list installed"

[Bill Davidsen]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:20:31 -0400, Bill wrote:
> 
>> Your guess is right, the updates are in disabled repos (at least mine all are), 
>> but they are packages for which an update exists.
> 
> Coincidence. Yum cannot know that there are updates in repos which
> are not enabled.
> 
If the repos were enabled at one time and the data is still available it can be 
checked, and of course yum knows when/if the package installed came from a repo 
which is not currently enabled. Or perhaps that's why it's read, given the habit 
of "upgrades" to break working software, I rarely upgrade anything other than 
security fixes if the package "works for me" as I use it.

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