[CentOS] New yum search behavior is awful/useless

[AnneWilson]

On Saturday 28 June 2008 18:48:16 Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Anyone already tried yum search after the 5.2 upgrade?
>
> yum search perl-MIME-tools
> <skipped some stuff>
> perl-MIME-tools.noarch : Perl modules for parsing (and creating!) MIME
> entities
> perl-MIME-tools.noarch : Perl modules for parsing (and creating!) MIME
> entities
> perl-MIME-tools.noarch : Perl modules for parsing (and creating!) MIME
> entities
>
> That *used* to tell if it's installed (and from where) and from which
> repositories which version is available. This information is all gone now.
> Also gone is the description. I can get the description from info and the
> installed status from list, but the repo information is completely gone
> now it seems. In this state yum search is pretty useless.
> Am I missing something? man yum and yum.conf don't list any options to get
> a more useful behavior.
>
> Kai

Just type 'yum' without parameters, to get a list of possibilities.  I 
think 'yum list' may be what you are looking for.  (I don't have Fedora or 
CentOS on this laptop so I can't check.)

Anne