[Yum] Re: yum search behaviour change from 3.0.x to 3.2.x

denis denisb+gmane at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 11:28:13 UTC 2008


James Antill wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2008 14:33:19 -0700, MHR wrote:
> 
>> I use a bash function to look for packages in yum that looks like 'yum
>> list | grep -i' and then takes one grep argument as its "parameter" (in
>> CentOS 5) - works nicely for my purposes.  YMMV.
> 
>  That's fine, if that's what you want, but you'll probably find that the
> following is faster (esp. on newer versions of yum):
<SNIP excellent python yumsearch script>

Thanks James, just what I wanted, a fine workable script which does 
exactly what I want.

Regards
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Denis




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