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

MHR mhullrich at gmail.com
Thu May 29 22:15:45 UTC 2008


On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM, James Antill <james at and.org> wrote:
>
>  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):
>
> import yum
> import sys
>
> my = yum.YumBase()
> my.conf.cache = 1
>
> searchterms = sys.argv[1:]
> searchlist = ['name']
>
> print '::searching'
> res = my.searchGenerator(searchlist, searchterms)
>
> for (pkg,values) in res:
>    ver = pkg.printVer()
>    na = '%s.%s' % (pkg.name, pkg.arch)
>    # Print like list
>    print "%-40.40s %-22.22s %-16.16s" % (na, ver, pkg.repoid)
>

This does not appear to be a bash function/script/alias/anything - is that perl?



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