Tony Schreiner wrote: > Jerry Geis wrote: >> I am trying things like "yum provides alsamixer" on centox 5.2 i386 >> and x86_64 >> also "yum provides vi" >> "yum provides gvimdiff" >> "yum provides dumpiso" >> "yum provides uname" >> >> All of these return "no matches found" >> >> is something broke??? >> >> These are just examples. I was trying to do "yum provides xf86Modes.h" >> it returns no matches also. >> >> Jerry >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > For files try > > yum provides '*/vi' > etc... > > I think this is new behavior for yum > > Tony Schreiner > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I recently discovered this "feature" in a thread on fedora-list[1]. I did mention that maybe the yum manpage ought to be updated to inform the user, as I always wondered why it never worked for me until I saw the post. Although I knew that globs could be used with certain yum commands, I wasn't aware you needed to use them with this one. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2008-August/msg00884.html