[CentOS] "yum -yq --security check-update" spouting lots of text?

Tue Nov 9 20:56:37 UTC 2010
Dave <tdbtdb+centos at gmail.com>

I guess I should send this to yum at lists.baseurl.org instead, not really
on-topic for centos.
Dave

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Dave
<tdbtdb+centos at gmail.com<tdbtdb%2Bcentos at gmail.com>
> wrote:

> uname -a
> Linux  2.6.18-194.17.4.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Tue Oct 26 04:07:11 EDT 2010
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> I thought -q meant 'no output'. Recently yum -q has started spewing the
> following garbage, can anyone tell me why?
> thanks,
> Dave
>
> # yum -yq --security check-update 2>/dev/null
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, security
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * addons: mirror.5ninesolutions.com
>  * base: ftp.osuosl.org
>  * centosplus: centos.promopeddler.com
>  * contrib: mirrors.kernel.org
>  * epel: mirror.pnl.gov
>  * extras: mirror.rocketinternet.net
>  * rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
>  * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.web-ster.com
>  * rpmfusion-free-updates-testing: mirror.web-ster.com
>  * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.web-ster.com
>  * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing: mirror.web-ster.com
>  * updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
> Limiting package lists to security relevant ones
> No packages needed, for security, 31 available
>
> aalib.x86_64
> 1.4.0-5.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> blas.x86_64
> 3.1.1-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> cadaver.x86_64
> 0.22.5-1.el5.rf                                                     rpmforge
>
> dnsmasq.x86_64
> 2.55-1.el5.rf                                                       rpmforge
>
> emacs-git.x86_64
> 1.7.3-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> enca.x86_64
> 1.10-1.el5.rf                                                       rpmforge
>
> gdal.x86_64
> 1.4.4-2.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> geos.x86_64
> 3.2.2-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> git.x86_64
> 1.7.3-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> hdf5.x86_64
> 1.8.0-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> iso-codes.noarch
> 1.0a-1.el5.rf                                                       rpmforge
>
> lapack.x86_64
> 3.1.1-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> lftp.x86_64
> 4.0.10-1.el5.rf                                                     rpmforge
>
> libextractor.x86_64
> 0.5.22-2.el5.rf                                                     rpmforge
>
> libmpcdec.x86_64
> 1.2.6-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> libpaper.x86_64
> 1.1.22-1.el5.rf                                                     rpmforge
>
> libwpd.x86_64
> 0.8.14-1.el5.rf                                                     rpmforge
>
> mtr.x86_64
> 2:0.80-1.el5.rf                                                     rpmforge
>
> netcdf.x86_64
> 3.6.3-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> netcdf-devel.x86_64
> 3.6.3-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> perl-Compress-Zlib.noarch
> 2.015-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> perl-DBI.x86_64
> 1.615-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> perl-Git.x86_64
> 1.7.3-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> perl-HTML-Parser.x86_64
> 3.68-1.el5.rf                                                       rpmforge
>
> perl-HTML-Tagset.noarch
> 3.20-1.el5.rf                                                       rpmforge
>
> proj.x86_64
> 4.7.0-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> rsync.x86_64
> 3.0.7-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> syslinux.x86_64
> 4.03-1.el5.rf                                                       rpmforge
>
> udftools.x86_64
> 1.0.0b3-3.el5.rf                                                    rpmforge
>
> xvidcore.x86_64
> 1.2.2-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge
>
> Obsoleting Packages
> perl-IO-Compress.noarch
> 2.030-2.el5.rf                                                      dag
>
>
> perl-Compress-Zlib.x86_64
> 1.42-1.fc6
> installed
>
>


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