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

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