[Yum-devel] pkgSack.searchNevra()

[Phil Knirsch]

seth vidal wrote:
> Hey folks,
>  I was looking at the searchNevra() method of the pkgSack. In the repomd
> sack it returns things matching as many of the provided nevra info as
> possible. In the sqlite sack it only returns exact matches.
> 
> So if you don't specify one component to the sqlite method it won't
> return anything.
> 
> I think it should probably return as much as possible as it has and
> ignore the NoneType args.
> 
> So if I pass pkgSack.SearchNevra(name='zsh')
> it should return all zsh's in the pkgSack.
> 
> Does that make sense to everyone?
> 

Sure, as more often than not you probably don't know/have the exact 
nevra of a package (because you're looking for it in the first place 
using searchNevra() anyway ;).

Read ya, Phil

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