Re: [CentOS] yum provides on centos 5.2

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 13:50 +1200, Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd wrote:

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Include the path:

Doesn't that defeat the purpose? My favourite use of the "whatprovides" feature of yum is could find things that aren't on my system. I'd prefer not to go on a wild path chase. :)

This looks like a bug to me.

On CentOS 5.1 (yum 3.0.5):

# yum provides uname | awk '/i386|noarch/ {print $1}' uucp.i386 ... coreutils.i386

on CentOS 5.2 (yum 3.2.8), No Matches found

That's not a bug, that's a “feature”. :-D

Historically, “yum provides” dumped the kitchen sink on you and you had to wade through the debris to find what you wanted.

Looks like the new “feature” went a bit too far the other way.

Steve