Fedora website suggestions
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Tue Oct 18 02:31:08 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 17:16 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> I was wondering if the Fedora website could have the following
> added to it:
>
> (1) a searchable index of the "rpm -qi" info, so one can search
> for packages based on their descriptions
They have this in the repodata -
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/
A search index for it I suppose would be nice
>
> (2) a table mapping the "rpm -q --filesbypkg" database back to
> package name... i.e. if you are missing a file and you want to
> know what package provides it...
2 can be done with
yum provides /path/to/file
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