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

[Jon Miller]

eric at intellovations.com writes:

> 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.

I've found 'repoquery' to be quite handy in performing specific remote
queries. If you just wanted a list of the repos and the package name, you can
use this example from the man-page:
  repoquery -a --qf "%-20{repoid} %{name}"

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Jon Miller