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

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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
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AnneWilson wrote on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:02:02 +0100:

> I
> think 'yum list' may be what you are looking for.

It's close, but lacks functionality that search had.
You have to enable showdupesfromrepos=1 and even then you get not all
info:

yum list perl-MIME-tools

Installed Packages
perl-MIME-tools.noarch 5.420-2.el5.rf installed
Available Packages
perl-MIME-tools.noarch 5.420-1.el5.rf rpmforge

You have to *assume* that the -2 package came from rpmforge (in the case
of rpmforge it's also marked by "rf", but that's not necessarily the case
with other repo's), the old search listing was like this:

perl-MIME-tools.noarch 5.420-1.el5.rf rpmforge
perl-MIME-tools.noarch 5.420-2.el5.rf rpmforge
perl-MIME-tools.noarch 5.420-2.el5.rf installed


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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.)
>
> Anne

Or

yum provides <package name or string>

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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



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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Brian wrote on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:48:09 -0400 (EDT):

> yum provides

how does this provide any old functionality of search?

Kai

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