On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 16:11, shawnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Howde. Pardon me if this is a newbe question. > > I am just checking out yum under fedora. I've been using apt for quite a > long time. When I am looking for packages under apt it will search the > descriptions and show hits that are related. For instance, 'apt-cache > search apache' returns 13 responses, showing me packages that are related > to apache, such as php and mod_ssl. When I do 'yum list apache' I get no > hits at all because the package is httpd. > > Is there currently a way to search package descriptions? > yum search foo is the exact syntax. it already exists. give it a try. -sv
