[CentOS] New yum search behavior is awful/useless
Johnny Hughes
johnny at centos.org
Sat Jun 28 23:04:21 UTC 2008
Brian wrote:
> On Sat, June 28, 2008 2:02 pm, AnneWilson wrote:
>> Just type 'yum' without parameters, to get a list of possibilities. I
>> think 'yum list' may be what you are looking for. (I don't have Fedora or
>> CentOS on this laptop so I can't check.)
No CentOS or Fedora ... is there any other OS out there besides these
two??? I have heard rumors of others, but I don't believe it :D
> Or
>
> yum provides <package name or string>
One new behavior is important ... if you are looking for a file name
that is part of a string, you have to use wildcards:
yum provides libkholidays.so
(this give NOTHING)
yum provides \*libkholidays.so
or
yum provides '*libkholidays.so'
those will return the answer of: "kdepim.i386 : PIM (Personal
Information Manager) for KDE"
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Please remember, we DO NOT WRITE this stuff, we just build it to work
the same as upstream :D
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