on 4-1-2008 12:45 AM D Steward spake the following: >> then I've started googling the net and .... ____finally____ I found >> the magic combination. One very merciful soul posted the golden >> combination. >> >> yum groupinstall "XFCE-4.4" >> > It's unfortunate, but I've been tripped up by yum when doing searches. > I feel that especially when doing the 'search', 'list', 'whatprovides' > subcommands, the search term should be case-insensitive. > This is particularly dumb when the package name is upper-case XFCE, but > most of the individual rpms are lower-case eg. xfce4-session > Maybe a command-line option for this? A case sensitive OS will have issues like this. You are right that there should be a case insensitive option to searches, but you would have to do that at the yum creators site and wait for it to trickle down. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080401/562cb1c7/attachment-0004.sig>