[Yum] feature request

[Chris]

I believe the functionality you are looking for is :
yum provides foo

It has been there for a while.  It is not fool proof, as it relies on
the rpm to have properly configured its provides tags (is this
correct?), but it is very useful and very functional, IME.

--Chris

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 04:01, Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> I feature which I miss a long time from rpm would be useful and IMHO 
> easy to add to yum. eg when I looking for which package related to a 
> given "subject" ie. would like to search in the descriprion or in the 
> file list. to give a concrate example:
> - when I see that some program require libxyz.so.4, then I use to do
>    in the rpm dir:
>    rpm -qpil *.rpm|less
>    then /libxyz.so.4 to find the file
>    then go up a bit to find which package contains that file.
>    since yum knows the filelist it would be very useful:
>    yum search libxyz.so.4
>    gives a package name
> - when I looking for irda related packages I search in the description
>    rpm -qpi *.rpm|less
>    then /irda
>    yum search irda
>    would be very useful.
-- 
Chris <chris at geddings.org>