[Yum] searching package descriptions

Sean O'Connell sean at ee.duke.edu
Wed Nov 19 21:11:04 UTC 2003


Shawn-

finding info on pkg foobar

yum info foobar
yum info foo\*


Sean

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 16:11, shawnm at noisebox.dhs.org wrote:
> Howde. Pardon me if this is a newbe question.
> 
> I am just checking out yum under fedora. I've been using apt for quite a
> long time. When I am looking for packages under apt it will search the
> descriptions and show hits that are related. For instance, 'apt-cache
> search apache' returns 13 responses, showing me packages that are related
> to apache, such as php and mod_ssl. When I do 'yum list apache' I get no
> hits at all because the package is httpd.
> 
> Is there currently a way to search package descriptions?
> 
> If not would it make sense to have something like 'yum search foo' look
> for foo within the descriptions of packages?
> 
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