Dimi Paun wrote:
[...]
However the RedHat / Fedora Core package manager was awfully
inadequate, offering no search functionality at all (<flame>they
probably think the dumbed-down categories remove the need for
it</flame>).
The package manager does not do that. Did you try http://rpmfind.net?
Also, the packages should be available via yum (most likely at
DAG http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/rpmforge.php)
As far as I could see neither will let me search for a package based on
the name of a file it contains. For instance in both cases a search on
'gettext.pm' returns no result though both know about perl-Locale-gettext.
But I found http://rpm.pbone.net/ which seems to be giving good results.
However it often gives more than one result for a given distribution and
it's not always clear which packages are official and which are not. For
instance nsgmls seems to be provided by opensp and openjade on Fedora. I
think openjade is the official package...
In fact I did not find *any* perl package listed
in RedHat's package manager!
And herein lies the problem: hate it or love it, it's the most
used distribution, and it should work on it first and foremost.
Hehe, maybe.. maybe not. According to DesktopLinux RedHat (including
Fedora Core) was third behind Mandrake and SUSE.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2127420238.html
Not that their 'survey' is very reliable or that this is very important,
Fedora is one of the main Linux distributions anyway.
On a slightly different note, I think you are comparing apples
to oranges: you want rpm to provide search equivalent to what
an indexing site does for Debian. It shouldn't and there are
such sites out there.
True but I also mentioned that SUSE's Yast2 let me search for the
package providing a given file even if that package was not installed.
This is exactly the functionality that is missing from RedHat's package
manager (and from Debian's). I also mentioned that the problem I
encountered was probably at least partly related to my inexperience with
RPM.
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Francois Gouget
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