Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Nov 27 13:56:07 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 12:45 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:52:50 -0500
> James Antill <james.antill at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >  The 3.2.8 version will come with case sensitive highlighting of
> > search terms[1], and yum already searches for multiple terms if you
> > give them (as does yum list).
> 
> Yes, but it searches for term1 OR term2. More often than not I'd
> prefer AND.

actually, it doesn't.

yum search foo bar baz

will do:

return all packages matching all 3
return all packages matching any 2
return all packages matching 1

in that order.

-sv





More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list