This is pretty well documented in the man pages . When you do list all you are getting a different view because of historylistview . You can override this by yum history list all setopthistorylistviewcmds . you can also view what happened by merging the transactions in history view . Eg . yum history info 1 . last <| sep |> Why was their address written on the cage ? Was that a notsosubtle hint that it would be okay for the public to punish the families of the condemned as well ? <| sep |> I did not waste 300 k gold , 70 k iron , a lot of berries and gems to give people a tldr on siegfried <| sep |> lazy repost but a really cool photo <| sep |> I mistakenly thought rationality was something toward which we should aspire , I guess .