[Yum] yum info option

[Robert G. Brown]

On 12 Jul 2002, seth vidal wrote:

> Hey,
>  Would anyone  find a "yum info [package]" option useful?
> 
> it would more or less list what an rpm -qi does for all packages listed
> on the command line.

Yes, and it would be nice to have a 

  yum grep "string to match"

as well.  So that if I want to see all the packages that pertain to
wireless networking, I could do

  yum grep "wireless"

and get a list of all packages with "wireless" in their description, so
that I could then do

  yum info wireless-tools
  yum info hotplug

and see if either of these is what I'm looking for.

One can almost do this now with "grep /var/cache/yum/server/headers/*,
but of course this gets more complicated with multiple repositories and
doesn't return anything formatted.  For that matter, one can also do
"less /var/cache/yum/server/headers/package.hdr" and get what yum info
would do, with the same reservations about repositories and formatting.

   rgb

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