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!!!!