[Yum] searching package descriptions

[Sean O'Connell]

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 16:32, seth vidal wrote:
> 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?
> > 
> 
> yum search foo is the exact syntax.
> 
> it already exists.
> 
> give it a try.

In which version of yum did it appear?

Sean

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