Description of problem: Hi, Yum seem to always truncate package names printed on the screen, which sometime leads to loosing valuable information. For example, localhost ~$ yum list available 'openafs-kmdl*' produces ... openafs-kmdl-2.6.22.9-91_0.99.cubbi_tuxo 1.4.4-23.fc7 atrpms openafs-kmdl-2.6.22.9-91_0.99.cubbi_tuxo 1.4.4-23.fc7 atrpms openafs-kmdl-2.6.22.9-91_0.99.cubbi_tuxo 1.4.4-23.fc7 atrpms ... Here both the version and the name are truncated, so one have no way to learn from yum that one has to type at least yum install openafs-kmdl-2.6.22.9-91_1.cubbi_tuxonice.fc7 to have the package installed. Also, one may need to get a specific version of the package, so showing complete package version information in a listing is also useful. I suggest to add a yum option, something like --full-package-names, that will make yum to print out full package names everywhere. (And not worry about pretty formatting.) This sounds like a feature request, but because this information loss makes it impossible to do package management with yum in some cases, I file this as a bug. Regards, Andrei Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.5-1.fc7.src.rpm How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add the ATrpms repository to your yum.repos.d 2. Run "yum list available" Actual results: versions and names of some packages in the listing are truncated. Yum man page does not suggest any command line option to obtain full name and version strings. Expected results: Yum should be fully usable even for packages that have longer names. Additional info:
Not sure we're going to be able to solve this one easily but tagging as YUMBUGDAY
Well "yum info" displays everything, so I'm thinking NAB ... but maybe we can convert to a slightly more verbose format somewhat like "yum search" does. The canonical test case in Fedora is php-pear-Structures-DataGrid-DataSource-DataObject (69 characters, if you incl. the version) ... or just php-pear-Str*
I'm going to leave this open, and I might fix it for "list" when the new verbose/logging APIs go into upstream (post Fed-9). Or I might just close it NaB, after more consideration.
Hi James, I did not realize I could use "yum info" instead of "yum list", so I had to use a web browser to find out the correct package name. "yum info" is an improvement over that, but still, it's not convenient to use when you just need the name. Also, other users may have the same problem of not thinking about "info" when they _really_ want to "list". All in all, it would be nice to fix "list" and not just close the bug. Regards, Andrei
Additionally, if you want a list w/o any sort of truncation look at repoquery in yum-utils. Very handy for getting rpm -q type output from yum repos.
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Moving to Fed-9, I did a fix and I'm not sure it'll go in for Fed-9 ... but it should be there for Fed-10. Anyway...