Re: yum list available weird output

On Wed, 6 May 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
> The man page says that 'installed' is a valid context and that's been in 
> there for quite a long while from what I can see. Why do you want to put more 
> restriction into this tool? Yum can list installed as well as available 
> packages. Repoquery has been able and should continue to be able to do the 
> same thing.

B/c it is not called 'rpmdb query' and it confuses results when you look 
up a package and it spits back out something from your local rpmdb.

So restricting it to only doing what it is named for makes the most sense 
to me.

-sv