Time to look at a few features of yum in RHEL-6.1 now that it's released
Search is more userfriendly
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The updateinfo command
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The versionlock command
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Manage your own .repo variables
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yum has it's own DB
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Additional data in "yum history"
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"yum install" is now fully kickstart compatible
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Easier to change yum configuration
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Working towards managing 10 machines easily
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May 20 2011, 19:18:30 UTC 1 year ago
provides == fileprovides?
If I say "yum provides foo", it's because I want to know which package provides file foo.The problem is twofold: 1) From what I've seen that is the (much) less common usage. 2) If you assume people want to check for files by default, you need to load the "filelists" data from all repos. ... which means that everybody who doesn't want to do that (Eg. most people) will then shout at me for wasting their time/bandwidth/etc.
I'd thought about doing some "primary-file-lookup" type command, mainly for command lookup (where you don't need filelists) but that could be extended ... what files do you lookup frequently?