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 Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
