Bug 1768871

Summary: RFE: search in virtual provides
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Remi Collet <fedora>
Component: dnfAssignee: rpm-software-management
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Description Remi Collet 2019-11-05 12:45:42 UTC 
This is one of the old yum/dnf strange behavior

When "foo" is a virtual provides

dnf install foo => works
dnf search foo => don't find anything


Use case, all PHP extensions are virtual provides, and thus are not found

ex:
# dnf search php-curl
Last metadata expiration check: 0:21:46 ago on Tue Nov  5 13:22:15 2019.
No matches found.

# dnf install php-curl
Package php-common-7.2.24-1.fc29.x86_64 is already installed.


Such question raise very often on various support channel.