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

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:19 PM, James Antill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  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).
>
:
>
>  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.
>

I use a bash function to look for packages in yum that looks like 'yum
list | grep -i' and then takes one grep argument as its "parameter"
(in CentOS 5) - works nicely for my purposes.  YMMV.

HTH.

mhr