Re: Feature request ... or How to.

On Sun, 2 May 2010, John Reiser wrote:

>> yum list installed
>>
>> it even tells you which repo the pkgs came from.
>
> The formatting is not friendly to scripts.  It's OK to introduce
> a line break to insure columnar format for a terminal,
> but output to a plain file should put all the info for one package
> onto just one line.
>
>  $ yum list installed  > yum.out  # redirect stdout to an IF_REG file
>  $ more yum.out
> [[snip]]
> NetworkManager.x86_64              1:0.7.2.995-2.git20100225.fc11
>                                                              @updates
> [[snip]]
>
> Notice the line break between the version "...fc11" and the repo 'updates'.
> This makes the info hard to parse using 'read' in bash, for instance.
> Also there are mystery repos such as 'installed':
> ConsoleKit.x86_64                  0.3.0-8.fc11               installed
>

yes - screenscraping is a bad idea. If you want to do programmatic things 
there are better and simpler interfaces.

-sv