Re: yum-versionlock: needs better output

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:

> Right now when I run yum with the yum-versionlock installed and a package 
> version in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list I get:
>
> # yum update bzip2
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Loading "versionlock" plugin
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> * fedora: archive.fedoraproject.org
> * updates: archive.fedoraproject.org
> Reading version lock configuration
> Setting up Update Process
> Could not find update match for bzip2
> No Packages marked for Update
>
>
> But nowhere does it tell me that versionlock is preventing the update of 
> bzip2.  Only by running:
> yum list bzip2
>
> can I see that there is an update.
>
> What we need is for yum-versionlock to report that the update is not taking 
> place because versionlock is preventing it.

If you bump the debug level to 5 (yum -d 5)

does this show up:

Excluding package <name> due to version lock

-sv