yum: the package manager I love to hate

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:56 -0400, Jake Peavy wrote:
> I'd like to buy a vowel.

Yum is not a package manager.

> Can someone tell me what package xxd is in?

I use this:

qwhich () { if [ "$1" == "" ]; then echo "usage: qwhich <cmd>" ; fi ;
rpm -qf `which $1` ;}

$ qwhich xxd
vim-common-7.2.148-1.fc11.x86_64

Regards,
Bryn.