I believe the functionality you are looking for is : yum provides foo It has been there for a while. It is not fool proof, as it relies on the rpm to have properly configured its provides tags (is this correct?), but it is very useful and very functional, IME. --Chris On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 04:01, Farkas Levente wrote: > hi, > I feature which I miss a long time from rpm would be useful and IMHO > easy to add to yum. eg when I looking for which package related to a > given "subject" ie. would like to search in the descriprion or in the > file list. to give a concrate example: > - when I see that some program require libxyz.so.4, then I use to do > in the rpm dir: > rpm -qpil *.rpm|less > then /libxyz.so.4 to find the file > then go up a bit to find which package contains that file. > since yum knows the filelist it would be very useful: > yum search libxyz.so.4 > gives a package name > - when I looking for irda related packages I search in the description > rpm -qpi *.rpm|less > then /irda > yum search irda > would be very useful. -- Chris <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
