Re: yum-versionlock: needs better output

Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
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# yum list 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
Installed Packages
bzip2.i386 1.0.4-10.fc7 installed

Here's what I get with:
# yum -d 5 update bzip2
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "versionlock" plugin
Running "init" handler for "fastestmirror" plugin
Yum Version: 3.2.8
COMMAND: yum -d 5 update bzip2
Installroot: /
Ext Commands:

bzip2
Reading Local RPMDB
Setting up Package Sacks
Running "postreposetup" handler for "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* fedora: archive.fedoraproject.org
* updates: archive.fedoraproject.org
Running "exclude" handler for "versionlock" plugin
Reading version lock configuration
Excluding package bzip2 - 1.0.4-10.fc7.i386 due to version lock
Excluding package bzip2 - 1.0.4-11.fc7.i386 due to version lock
Setting up Update Process
Building updates object
Could not find update match for bzip2
No Packages marked for Update


So it shows both the 'installed' and 'available' packages as excluded.

Maybe it could show something like this which gives us a little more 
context:
...
Installed package bzip2 - 1.0.4-10.fc7.i386
Excluding package bzip2 - 1.0.4-11.fc7.i386 due to version lock
...

And this type of info is exactly what we need. Can these two lines be 
made available in the future without the -d flag?


Regards,
Gerry