Re: searching for packages w/yum

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 00:47, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> Hi all,
> Is there a yum equivalent to apt-cache search Msearcg-term>
> The manpage doesn't seem to show a way to do this.  If this isn't
> available, is it in the works for the future?  Should 
> I file a request w/ RH or the yum developers to add such a feature?
> 

it's known - there are a lot of misc features in the works - there are a
fair number of infrastructural changes underway w/i yum that are holding
up some of the user-exposed features.

you can do wildcard searches to list and info in yum

yum list foo\*

for example
-sv