I guess I should send this to <a href="mailto:yum@lists.baseurl.org">yum@lists.baseurl.org</a> instead, not really on-topic for centos.<br>Dave<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Dave <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tdbtdb%2Bcentos@gmail.com">tdbtdb+centos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">uname -a<br>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<br>
<br>I thought -q meant 'no output'. Recently yum -q has started spewing the following garbage, can anyone tell me why?<br>
thanks,<br>Dave<br><br># yum -yq --security check-update 2>/dev/null<br>Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, security<br>Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile<br> * addons: <a href="http://mirror.5ninesolutions.com" target="_blank">mirror.5ninesolutions.com</a><br>

 * base: <a href="http://ftp.osuosl.org" target="_blank">ftp.osuosl.org</a><br> * centosplus: <a href="http://centos.promopeddler.com" target="_blank">centos.promopeddler.com</a><br> * contrib: <a href="http://mirrors.kernel.org" target="_blank">mirrors.kernel.org</a><br>

 * epel: <a href="http://mirror.pnl.gov" target="_blank">mirror.pnl.gov</a><br> * extras: <a href="http://mirror.rocketinternet.net" target="_blank">mirror.rocketinternet.net</a><br> * rpmforge: <a href="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de" target="_blank">ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de</a><br>

 * rpmfusion-free-updates: <a href="http://mirror.web-ster.com" target="_blank">mirror.web-ster.com</a><br> * rpmfusion-free-updates-testing: <a href="http://mirror.web-ster.com" target="_blank">mirror.web-ster.com</a><br>
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: <a href="http://mirror.web-ster.com" target="_blank">mirror.web-ster.com</a><br>
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing: <a href="http://mirror.web-ster.com" target="_blank">mirror.web-ster.com</a><br> * updates: <a href="http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu" target="_blank">mirrors.cat.pdx.edu</a><br>Limiting package lists to security relevant ones<br>

No packages needed, for security, 31 available<br><br>aalib.x86_64                                                                    1.4.0-5.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>blas.x86_64                                                                     3.1.1-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>

cadaver.x86_64                                                                  0.22.5-1.el5.rf                                                     rpmforge <br>dnsmasq.x86_64                                                                  2.55-1.el5.rf                                                       rpmforge <br>

emacs-git.x86_64                                                                1.7.3-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>enca.x86_64                                                                     1.10-1.el5.rf                                                       rpmforge <br>

gdal.x86_64                                                                     1.4.4-2.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>geos.x86_64                                                                     3.2.2-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>

git.x86_64                                                                      1.7.3-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>hdf5.x86_64                                                                     1.8.0-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>

iso-codes.noarch                                                                1.0a-1.el5.rf                                                       rpmforge <br>lapack.x86_64                                                                   3.1.1-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>

lftp.x86_64                                                                     4.0.10-1.el5.rf                                                     rpmforge <br>libextractor.x86_64                                                             0.5.22-2.el5.rf                                                     rpmforge <br>

libmpcdec.x86_64                                                                1.2.6-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>libpaper.x86_64                                                                 1.1.22-1.el5.rf                                                     rpmforge <br>

libwpd.x86_64                                                                   0.8.14-1.el5.rf                                                     rpmforge <br>mtr.x86_64                                                                      2:0.80-1.el5.rf                                                     rpmforge <br>

netcdf.x86_64                                                                   3.6.3-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>netcdf-devel.x86_64                                                             3.6.3-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>

perl-Compress-Zlib.noarch                                                       2.015-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>perl-DBI.x86_64                                                                 1.615-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>

perl-Git.x86_64                                                                 1.7.3-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>perl-HTML-Parser.x86_64                                                         3.68-1.el5.rf                                                       rpmforge <br>

perl-HTML-Tagset.noarch                                                         3.20-1.el5.rf                                                       rpmforge <br>proj.x86_64                                                                     4.7.0-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>

rsync.x86_64                                                                    3.0.7-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>syslinux.x86_64                                                                 4.03-1.el5.rf                                                       rpmforge <br>

udftools.x86_64                                                                 1.0.0b3-3.el5.rf                                                    rpmforge <br>xvidcore.x86_64                                                                 1.2.2-1.el5.rf                                                      rpmforge <br>

Obsoleting Packages<br>perl-IO-Compress.noarch                                                         2.030-2.el5.rf                                                      dag      <br>    perl-Compress-Zlib.x86_64                                                   1.42-1.fc6                                                          installed<br>

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