What exactly is 'yum list recent' ??

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On 02/02/09 22:56, William Case wrote:
> Sorry g, I asked the wrong question.
>
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 22:13 -0500, William Case wrote:
>> Thanks g;
>>
>> I had tried to phrase my question in such a way as to indicate I was
>> asking a deeper question than could be answered by 'man'.
>>
>> For example, I have /var/log/rpmpkgs-20090201, that contains more
>> packages than my most recent update but not all.  I have 5 dated rpmpkgs
>> in all. How or what is 'yum list recent' giving me?  In this context,
>> what does recent mean?  Or, does yum get its recent list elsewhere?
>
> 'yum list recent' tells me what is recent in (external) repositories.
>
> I need to construct an rpm --query to get the answer I want about what
> has been recently downloaded onto my machine.  I'll try that now.

Does it have to be rpm? You can always do a "tail /var/log/yum.log".

poc