[colug-432] Yum search to show installation status/repo?

[Eric Floehr]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Matthew Hyclak <hyclak at gmail.com> wrote:

> On CentOS 6.5 the yum manpage shows
>
>        OUTPUT
>
>               The format of the output of yum list is:
>
>               name.arch [epoch:]version-release  repo or
> @installed-from-repo
>
>
> yum list shows all packages and where they came from. Installed packages
> are listed first, and the repo has an @ prepended, then Available packages
> with no @.
>
>  Is that not what you're looking for?
>


Thanks! It somewhat does.

It's all the info I'm looking for, but the nice thing about yum's search is
it looks at description, url, etc. not just package name. So I could almost
get it by grepping the output of yum list, but it's not a one-to-one
replacement of what aptitude and zypper do.

-Eric
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