Description of problem: I made a yum call with a typo: yum upodate kernel --enablerepo=updates-testing (I meant ... update ...) It seems yum does a lot of not useful things before it sees the syntax error: yum upodate kernel --enablerepo=updates-testing Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit ------ begin of my comment: this part not needed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!----------- updates-testing/metalink | 18 kB 00:00 updates-testing | 4.7 kB 00:00 updates-testing/primary_db | 1.5 MB 00:01 updates-testing/group_gz | 431 kB 00:00 ------ end of my comment: this part not needed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!------- No such command: upodate. Please use /usr/bin/yum --help Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ------ my comment: not needed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!----------- How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.enter a yum cmd with a syntactically wrong subcommand 2. 3. Actual results: No immediate syntax check Expected results: immediate syntax check Additional info:
*** Bug 796757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***