Hello,
'yum search R' returns an impossibly-long list. So I tried 'yum search R.x86_64' and 'yum search R-2.3.0' and few others to no avail. (Google revealed that R package does exist in kbsingh repository.) However, 'yum install R' did offer to install the correct package.
Can someone enlighten me as to why did the searches failed or generated a hugh list of alternatives, while the install hit right on the mark?
Thanks, Itay
FWIW: cat kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo
[kbs-CentOS-Extras] name=CentOS.Karan.Org-EL$releasever - Stable gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://centos.karan.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-karan.org.txt enabled=1 baseurl=http://centos.karan.org/el$releasever/extras/stable/$basearch/RPMS/ # Need a ftp mirror ? uncomment the line below, & disable the one above # baseurl=ftp://rpm.karan.org/pub/kbsingh/el$releasever/extras/stable/$basearch/RPMS/ #== 2006-07-10 itayf@fastmail.fm protect plugin config ==# protect = 0 exclude = *.i386 *.i586 *.i686 includepkgs = darcs darcs-server prozilla R
'yum search R' returns an impossibly-long list. So I tried 'yum search R.x86_64' and 'yum search R-2.3.0' and few others to no avail. (Google revealed that R package does exist in kbsingh repository.) However, 'yum install R' did offer to install the correct package.
Can someone enlighten me as to why did the searches failed or generated a hugh list of alternatives, while the install hit right on the mark?
I believe it's because 'yum search' is not case sensitive and so will return most things with 'r' in them or the description of them. This question is probably best suited for the yum mailing list instead, but I'm fairly sure that's the cause. It would be akin to searching for the letter 'a' in this email, when you really mean the word 'a'.
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 00:43 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
'yum search R' returns an impossibly-long list. So I tried 'yum search R.x86_64' and 'yum search R-2.3.0' and few others to no avail. (Google revealed that R package does exist in kbsingh repository.) However, 'yum install R' did offer to install the correct package.
Can someone enlighten me as to why did the searches failed or generated a hugh list of alternatives, while the install hit right on the mark?
I believe it's because 'yum search' is not case sensitive and so will return most things with 'r' in them or the description of them. This question is probably best suited for the yum mailing list instead, but I'm fairly sure that's the cause. It would be akin to searching for the letter 'a' in this email, when you really mean the word 'a'.
Right ... and if you know the name of the package, you would instead do 'yum info' not "yum search".
yum search is looking for a package that contains the word (or a partial match of the word) you put in anywhere (in the package name, in the name of the files it contains, etc.). This would match everything for which there is an r ... which would be every package in the distro :P
"yum info R" gives you exactly what you want ....
Name : R Arch : i386 Version: 2.3.0 Release: 2.el4.kb Size : 19 M Repo : kbs-CentOS-Extras Summary: A language for data analysis and graphics
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 00:43 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote: yum search is looking for a package that contains the word (or a partial match of the word) you put in anywhere (in the package name, in the name of the files it contains, etc.). This would match everything for which there is an r ... which would be every package in the distro :P
"yum info R" gives you exactly what you want ....
And even though 'yum list "r*"' still gives you a pretty long listing, it only shows packages whose names begin with [rR]. And in these packages listed R can easily be found ...
Cheers,
Ralph
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Itay Furman wrote:
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:41:59 +0200 (IST) From: Itay Furman itayf@nospammail.net Reply-To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Strange yum behavior
Hello,
'yum search R' returns an impossibly-long list. So I tried 'yum search R.x86_64' and 'yum search R-2.3.0' and few others to no avail. (Google revealed that R package does exist in kbsingh repository.) However, 'yum install R' did offer to install the correct package.
So I misread the documentation. Thanks to Jim, Johnny, and Ralph, for clearing this up.
Itay
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