Output of "yum list installed"

[Bill Davidsen]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 14:38 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> I notice that some lines in the output of "yum list installed" are
>>> highlighted in red. There doesn't seem to be any mention of this in the
>>> manual. Does anyone know what it means?
>>>
>>> Highlighting is useful as a visual clue, but if the info is meaningful
>>> it should also be indicated in such a way that a filter could use it.
>>>
>> I believe those are the packages for which updates exist.
> 
> Updating my system made no difference to the set of highlighted
> packages, so that's not it.
> 
> My theory is that they are installed packages which aren't in the
> currently-enabled repos. Many of them are debug-info rpms, some others
> are clearly obsolete (F9 and F10), and the remainder look like they were
> installed manually (opera.x86_64 for example). I'll need to verify this,
> but I guess I'll report it as a documentation bug for now.
> 
Your guess is right, the updates are in disabled repos (at least mine all are), 
but they are packages for which an update exists.

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