Dear Matthew and Christopher, At first, sorrry for late, and thank you for your reply and your attention. In Debian systems: Directory /var/lib/apt/ keeps cache of repos, then users can search offline with apt-cache search blahblah , What's this scenario in yum system? and Where the given directory ? --mohsen On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 23:13 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 04:47:29AM +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > > not-installed > > The package is not installed on your system. > > `yum list` will show this. There are a number of options which you can find > in the man pages. > > > config-files > > Only the configuration files of the package exist on the > > system. > > half-installed > > The installation of the package has been started, but not > > completed for some reason. > > These don't exist because of differences between the underlying rpm and dpkg > systems. You can tell if files are missing from a package with the yum > verify plugin (install package yum-plugin-verify, and then look at the man > page for yum-verify). > > > > > unpacked > > The package is unpacked, but not configured. > > half-configured > > The package is unpacked and configuration has been > > started, but not yet completed for some reason. > > These concepts don't really exist in RPM. > > > > > triggers-awaited > > The package awaits trigger processing by another package. > > triggers-pending > > The package has been triggered. > > RPM does have triggers, but it's rather esoteric. I don't think there are > any yum plugins that expose this, but you can look more under the hood with > `rpm -q packagename triggers`. > -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
