thanks, it's a solution for the files, but not for the search in the descriptions. Chris wrote: > 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. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
