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

denis denisb+gmane at gmail.com
Wed May 28 07:33:33 UTC 2008


seth vidal wrote:
>> Is there any way for me to get the old behaviour back? I really liked 
>> that I could easily see all available packages, what repository they 
>> were sourced from, and in the same list see installed versions of 
>> matching packages.
> Not really, no. The change was made to speed the output up and simplify
> it. you might notice yum search is much much faster in 3.2.8 than 3.0.x.
> However, we might be able to work out something.

I understand the rationale for simplifying the resultlist, but it would 
be awesome if one could ask for an alternate presentation (slower 
performing obviously).

Having the package version and source repository listed is very helpful 
in a lot of situations.

> In the above, case, however, you can do: yum list redhat-lsb
> and get the results you want.

Yes, as I said I know I can use "list" in many situations (whenever the 
package name is known), but it does not provide the same level of recall 
as "search" would.

A typical example would be searching for apache :
yum list '*apache*'

will not return the actual httpd package, as it does not have apache in 
the title..


Thanks for clarifying anyway.

Regards
--
Denis




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