Re: How yum distingushes update packages from base packages

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 13:08 -0400, P Li wrote:
> Thank you very much for the reply. "showdupesfromrepos=1" is added to
> yum.conf and now "yum list" shows all the packages.
> 
> I have one more question: For a normal Fedora/CentOS system, this
> option is not set by default in yum.conf. However, "yum list" still
> shows both base packages and update packages. Why?
> 

you'd have to list versions of yum/fedora/centos and some other details.

-sv