[CentOS] yum quiet not really quiet anymore?

Sat Jul 24 18:12:03 UTC 2021
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> Hi all,
> I noticed that "yum -q" (or "dnf" -q) on CentOS 8 is not really quiet
> anymore. For example (notiche the "upgraded" line):
>
> [root at localhost cron.d]# yum upgrade -y -q
>
> Upgraded:
>    python3-perf-4.18.0-305.10.2.el8_4.x86_64
>
> While yum historically had issue with the quiet option [1], this
> specific issue seems new to me. Do you have any suggestion (short of
> redirecting stdout to /dev/null)?
>

Maybe redirecting only stderr to /dev/null is enough?

Simon