On Saturday 28 June 2008 18:48:16 Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Anyone already tried yum search after the 5.2 upgrade? > > yum search perl-MIME-tools > <skipped some stuff> > perl-MIME-tools.noarch : Perl modules for parsing (and creating!) MIME > entities > perl-MIME-tools.noarch : Perl modules for parsing (and creating!) MIME > entities > perl-MIME-tools.noarch : Perl modules for parsing (and creating!) MIME > entities > > That *used* to tell if it's installed (and from where) and from which > repositories which version is available. This information is all gone now. > Also gone is the description. I can get the description from info and the > installed status from list, but the repo information is completely gone > now it seems. In this state yum search is pretty useless. > Am I missing something? man yum and yum.conf don't list any options to get > a more useful behavior. > > Kai 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.) Anne