Re: RH9 user - what should I do?

[Michael Schwendt <fedora wir-sind-cool org>]

On Thu, 13 May 2004 19:23:55 -0500, Mike Vanecek wrote:

> > Use
> > 
> >   yum list 'mysql*'
> > 
> > or even
> > 
> >   yum list '*mysql*'
> 
> Nope. It only finds the ones installed, but not in the repo:

According to the manual, that's correct.  You can't downgrade packages
with Yum anyway, so only what's available or installed does matter.

> # yum list '*mysql*' or *mysql* (w/o the quotes)
>   
> Looking in Installed Packages:
> Name                                Arch   Version                  Repo
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> libdbi-dbd-mysql                    i386   0.6.5-5                  db
> mod_auth_mysql                      i386   1.11-12                  db
> mysql                               i386   3.23.58-1.9              db
> mysql-devel                         i386   3.23.58-1.9              db
> mysql-server                        i386   3.23.58-1.9              db
> php-mysql                           i386   4.2.2-17.2               db
>   
> It does not find them as available packages.

If you uninstalled them, they would become available again. ;)

yum search '*mysql*'   is somewhat rough, but searches _all_ packages.