[Linux-users] FC yum

[vu pham]

On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 21:44 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >yum search $package
> 
> This is fine if one knows the package name.  Often I've found
> that I know the name of a program or library I want, not what
> package it's in.
> 
> My solution to this is that we maintain local mirrors of the
> installation and update directories, and I wrote a script that
> uses ``rpm -qpl $rpmfile'' to extract the component names in the
> script, and build an index that I can grep to find the related
> packages.
> 
Bill, could you please explain a little bit more on "maintain local
mirrors of the installation and update directories" ? If this package
has never been installed/updated, how do I know its name ?

For example, I want to install a radius server on my FC7, how do I know
which radius server packages that FC7 has ? In this case, I do not know
the package name.

Thanks,

Vu