diff --git a/contrib/yum b/contrib/yum
index f34b96cc..78dede73 100644
--- a/contrib/yum
+++ b/contrib/yum
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ _yum_list()
 		# Try to strip in between headings like "Available Packages"
 		# This will obviously only work for English :P
 		COMPREPLY=( $( yum -d 0 -C list $1 "$cur*" 2>/dev/null | \
-		     grep -iv '^\(Available\|Installed\|Updated\) Packages' | \
-		     sed -e 's/[[:space:]].*//' ) )
+			sed -ne '/^\(Available\|Installed\|Updated\) /d' \
+			     -e 's/[[:space:]].*//p' ) )
 	else
 		# Drop first line (e.g. "Updated Packages")
 		COMPREPLY=( $( yum -d 0 -C list $1 "$cur*" 2>/dev/null | \
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ _yum_repolist()
 	# http://yum.baseurl.org/ticket/83
 	# Drop first ("repo id	repo name") axnd last ("repolist: ...") rows
 	yum --noplugins -C repolist $1 2>/dev/null | \
-		sed -ne '/^repo\(\s\+id\|list:\)/d' -e 's/\s.*//p'
+		sed -ne '/^repo\(\s\+id\|list:\)/d' -e 's/[[:space:]].*//p'
 }
 
 _yum()