On 6/7/05, Andy Ross <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ...improper usage? Is any search without a wildcard, even it if is > an exact package name, improper? yum search libstdc++ works as expected for me, returning just libstdc++ package yum search compat-libstdc++ returns nothing as expected no package by that name. yum search libstdc++-33 works as expected for me returning the compat-libstdc++-33 package FWIW, instead of search to find a packagename you know use 'yum list'. since search looks into things like summary descriptions as well. list only looks at the packagename. yum list "*libstdc++*" might returns faster than yum search in some cases. If you think the documentation of yum needs to be updated to provide additional information about wildcards.. file a bug with yum upstream. Preferably with the a first draft set of additional information to be added to the manpage. -jef