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
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
AnneWilson wrote on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:02:02 +0100:
I think 'yum list' may be what you are looking for.
It's close, but lacks functionality that search had. You have to enable showdupesfromrepos=1 and even then you get not all info:
yum list perl-MIME-tools
Installed Packages perl-MIME-tools.noarch 5.420-2.el5.rf installed Available Packages perl-MIME-tools.noarch 5.420-1.el5.rf rpmforge
You have to *assume* that the -2 package came from rpmforge (in the case of rpmforge it's also marked by "rf", but that's not necessarily the case with other repo's), the old search listing was like this:
perl-MIME-tools.noarch 5.420-1.el5.rf rpmforge perl-MIME-tools.noarch 5.420-2.el5.rf rpmforge perl-MIME-tools.noarch 5.420-2.el5.rf installed
Kai
On Sat, June 28, 2008 2:02 pm, AnneWilson wrote:
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
Or
yum provides <package name or string>
HTH
Brian wrote:
On Sat, June 28, 2008 2:02 pm, AnneWilson wrote:
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.)
No CentOS or Fedora ... is there any other OS out there besides these two??? I have heard rumors of others, but I don't believe it :D
Or
yum provides <package name or string>
One new behavior is important ... if you are looking for a file name that is part of a string, you have to use wildcards:
yum provides libkholidays.so
(this give NOTHING)
yum provides *libkholidays.so
or
yum provides '*libkholidays.so'
those will return the answer of: "kdepim.i386 : PIM (Personal Information Manager) for KDE"
============================================= Please remember, we DO NOT WRITE this stuff, we just build it to work the same as upstream :D
Brian wrote on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:48:09 -0400 (EDT):
yum provides
how does this provide any old functionality of search?
Kai
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