--- Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- > MailScanner is like deodorant... > You hope everybody uses it, and > you notice quickly if they don't!!!! > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > how about yum whatprovides please check man on yum to see exact formating of command.