On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 16:32, seth vidal wrote: > 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. In which version of yum did it appear? Sean -- Sean O'Connell Email: sean@xxxxxxxxxxx Sr. Systems Programmer 05A Hudson Hall Electrical and Computer Engineering Phone: (919) 660-5248 Duke University Fax: (919) 660-5293
