I am not sure when it happened, but at sometime within the last 2-3 weeks the display when doing a yum update/install/etc from CLI has changed. In the past, when yum was downloading packages the progress was all shown on a single line, and a new line was created only when the package name changed. Now it gets a new line for each progress update [1] as seen from an update done today. I checked and there have been no yum updates in some time, so I do not know which program is at fault here. Has anyone else noted this? Do you have any ideas on what the culprit likely is? I noted this update [2] that sounds suspicious, but I thought yum used python and not perl. I also see that PIL was installed and python-imaging and python-numeric were erased on 9/15 with my update.[3] Is it likely that an update to python broke a borked call from yum that had taken advantage of a weakness which was tightened up in the python update? [1] Downloading Packages: (1/6): libtunepimp-0.4.3- 20% |===== | 64 kB 00:01 E (1/6): libtunepimp-0.4.3- 52% |============= | 160 kB 00:00 E (1/6): libtunepimp-0.4.3- 78% |=================== | 240 kB 00:00 E (1/6): libtunepimp-0.4.3- 100% |=========================| 307 kB 00:01 [2] Sep 23 21:55:13 Updated: perl-Term-ProgressBar.noarch 2.09-2.fc5 [3] Sep 07 20:58:18 Installed: python-khashmir.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc5.rf Sep 15 19:13:52 Erased: python-imaging Sep 15 19:15:13 Erased: python-numeric Sep 15 19:15:02 Installed: PIL.x86_64 1.1.5-7.1.fc5.at
