yum: the package manager I love to hate

[Mauriat Miranda]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Bryn M. Reeves<bmr at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

Although I know what you mean, a lot of information more or less deems it so.

# man yum

DESCRIPTION
       yum is an interactive, rpm based, package manager.

> 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
>

Great tip!  Thanks.

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Mauriat Miranda
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