[Yum] Killer feature request

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 02:12, Dan Burcaw wrote:
> 
> Hi Seth, et al.
> 
> One feature that would be really nice would be the ability
> to do something like:
> 
> yum install <filename>
> 
> e.g.: yum install /usr/bin/python2.2
> 
> I believe this is quite possible... thoughts?
> 

I was thinking about a corollary feature of:
  yum whatprovides /something/here/

equivalently the same thing.

It could relatively easily find the right package(s) then prompt the
user if they wanted to install that.

Either way the same function is required - something that traverses the
file lists and provides in each header and looks for a pattern match
(probably an fnmatch)


-sv





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