how to get information out of koji with less pain?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 6 May 2009 08:43:37 -0400 (EDT), Robert wrote:

>   adding options to the koji command doesn't make much sense in the
> context of a search using the text box.  but here's where it gets
> *really* weird.
> 
>   if i search (graphically) for "kernel-firmware" as an RPM, i get no
> hits.  if, on the other hand, i search for the RE "kernel-f*", it
> shows up.  the obvious test is then to search for "kernel-firmware*"
> as an RPM, which finds it.  that's just weird.  and totally
> non-intuitive.
> 
>   is it possible that that just happens to me?  can anyone else
> reproduce that?

Searching "RPMs" searches the actual file names. No RPM file is called
"kernel-firmware". They have names like
kernel-firmware-2.6.27-0.144.rc0.git2.fc10.noarch.rpm
so you can search for a specific version/release/arch, too.