From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Yum does not allow regular expressions in "search" command. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.4.1-1.fc4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum search "^php" Actual Results: No Matches found Expected Results: php php-devel php-mysql : : Additional info:
you're actually best off just typing in the word you're looking for if you're doing a search w/o any globs or regexes. if you're looking for a package name don't use search at all. use yum list: yum list php\* that will get you the answers you want much better and faster. but we won't be adding regexes there, either. Distinguishing b/t regexes and file globs is too much for way too little benefit.