On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Garrick Staples wrote:
> I'd love it if yum had two different arguments for searching
> names/provides and filenames. Maybe this is a job for yum-utils?
Or, to put it more generally, yum's generic search abilities might need
some work. They're not "bad" (except for this bug, they tend to "work")
but they aren't really all that easy to use to do this sort of detective
work, where you know something is around but not exactly what has it.
Note also that "mt" is a pathological search string, sort of like "ls"
-- lots of irrelevant hits. It would be really good to have the ability
to "and" or "or" or "not" string arguments, as they can be used to keep
the search space sane. Still, "yum provides s" should at worst list
every package in the repo collection one time, with every line in the
metadata containing an s one time, in a way that scales linearly with
number of searched packages.
rgb
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