Re: yum search behaviour change from 3.0.x to 3.2.x

On Tue, 27 May 2008 10:03:49 +0200, denis wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Red Hat recently updated YUM from 3.0.1 (RHEL5) to 3.2.8 (RHEL5.2), and
> along came changes..
> 
> previously a "yum -d0 search redhat-lsb" would display results like
> this: "
> redhat-lsb.i386      3.1-12.2.EL            rhel-x86_64-serv
> redhat-lsb.x86_64    3.1-12.2.EL            rhel-x86_64-serv
> redhat-lsb.i386      3.1-12.3.EL            rhel-x86_64-serv
> redhat-lsb.x86_64    3.1-12.3.EL            rhel-x86_64-serv
> redhat-lsb.i386      3.1-12.3.EL            installed redhat-lsb.x86_64 
>   3.1-12.3.EL            installed "
> 
> The new output is:
> "
> redhat-lsb.x86_64 : LSB support for Red Hat Linux
> 
> redhat-lsb.i386 : LSB support for Red Hat Linux redhat-lsb.x86_64 : LSB
> support for Red Hat Linux redhat-lsb.i386 : LSB support for Red Hat
> Linux
> 
> redhat-lsb.i386 : LSB support for Red Hat Linux
> 
> redhat-lsb.x86_64 : LSB support for Red Hat Linux
> 
> "
> (Whitespace intentionally included.)

 You might think it'd be better to line up the start of the summary,
however this doesn't work well for packages like php-Pear-Str* (in
Fedora).

> Is there any way for me to get the old behaviour back? I really liked
> that I could easily see all available packages, what repository they
> were sourced from, and in the same list see installed versions of
> matching packages.

 If you want to rely on the text output, the best way would be to write
a simple application using the yum API as in:

http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/useful-scripts/simple-search.py

...as I know we've tweaked the output slightly for both the search and
list commands, since 3.2.8.

> "yum list all" / "yum list available" sort of work, but do not deliver
> the same recall when searching.

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