From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: yum search is sometimes case sensitive. for example 'yum search xfree' will return : Available package: redhat-config-xfree86.noarch 0:0.9.15-1 from base matches with redhat-config-xfree is a graphical user interface that allows the user to configure their XFree86 Xserver. Available package: redhat-config-xfree86.noarch 0:0.9.15-1 from base matches with redhat-config-xfree86 2 results returned and 'yum search XFree' will return : Available package: XFree86-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts.i386 0:4.3.0-42 from base matches with XFree86-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts Available package: XFree86-Xvfb.i386 0:4.3.0-42 from base matches with A virtual framebuffer X Windows System server for XFree86. Available package: XFree86-Xvfb.i386 0:4.3.0-42 from base matches with XFree86-Xvfb [...snip...] Available package: XFree86-devel.i386 0:4.3.0-42 from base matches with XFree86-devel Available package: redhat-config-xfree86.noarch 0:0.9.15-1 from base matches with redhat-config-xfree is a graphical user interface that allows the user to configure their XFree86 Xserver. Available package: redhat-config-xfree86.noarch 0:0.9.15-1 from base matches with A graphical interface for configuring XFree86 The expected result is the one given by 'yum search XFree' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.0.4-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum search xfree 2. yum search XFree 3. compare Actual Results: 'yum search xfree' doesn't list all xfree packages Expected Results: 'yum search xfree' list all xfree packages, even if the result contains some uppercase letters Additional info:
Most searches are case sensitive, at least by default. UPSTREAM in case case insensitive flag like grep -i is desired.