[Linux-users] FC yum

[Tim Wunder]

On Monday 13 August 2007 1:09:55 am Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007, vu pham wrote:
> >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.
>
> The simplest way is probably to either search the installation media
> directory or to copy it into a directory on a system.  Make a directory,
> say /centos/4.5/i386, then mount each CD or DVD image and copy it to that
> directory.  One could also do a loopback mount of a DVD iso which wouldn't
> require the disk space.
>
> The RPM packages would then be in /centos/4.5/i386/CentOS/RPMS so a command
> ``ls -1 /centos/4.5/i386/CentOS/RPMS/*radius*'' would give you a list of
> the freeradius RPMs available.
>
> BTW:  We've been using freeradius for since 1998 or so with no problems.
>

Or, you could type 'yum search radius|more' and find out the packages that 
have "radius" in their descriptions.

You do not need to know a package name to get useful results from a yum 
search.

Tim

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