Re: yum: the package manager I love to hate

[Jake Peavy <djstunks@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Huh?  "The Yellowdog Updater, Modified (YUM) is an open-source command-line package-

management utility for RPM-compatible Linux operating systems"

 

> 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

Again, I don't see that this is a useful technique. If I had it installed (such that it appeared in rpm -q or which) I wouldn't need to install it.

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