"dnf search" as braindead as "yum search"

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 20:10:05 UTC 2015


# dnf search libtoolize
Using metadata from Sat Mar 21 15:38:26 2015
============================= Matched: libtoolize ==============================
libedit.x86_64 : The NetBSD Editline library
libedit.i686 : The NetBSD Editline library

D'oh!

It's a false positive, because the word "libtoolized" is found in
the package description of "libedit". The package "libtool" is not
found, because "dnf search" doesn't search filelists by default.
A highly questionable decision.


More information about the devel mailing list