[CentOS] Re: perl-libnet on CentOS 5?

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Thu Dec 6 00:36:39 UTC 2007


on 12/5/2007 4:08 PM Amos Shapira spake the following:
> On 06/12/2007, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
>> Yum search "name", but it will only look in enabled repos.
> 
> Are you sure about that?
> 
> The description of "yum search" in the manual says:
>        search Is used to find any packages matching a string in  the  descrip-
>               tion,  summary, packager and package name fields of an rpm. Use-
>               ful for finding a package you do not know by name  but  know  by
>               some word related to it.
> 
> It doesn't mention file names.
> 
> In case my example from Debian wasn't clear - "apt-file" will allow
> searching by file-names through all repositories - including installed
> and uninstalled pacakges.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Amos
Sorry-- I fired before I read the entire message. Yum search searches by 
package name.

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