#!/usr/bin/python import yum import sys my = yum.YumBase() my.conf.cache = 1 searchterms = sys.argv[1:] searchlist = ['name', 'summary', 'description', 'packager', 'group', 'url'] print '::searching' res = my.searchGenerator(searchlist, searchterms) count = 1 for (pkg,values) in res: if count > 10: break count+=1 print "%s : %s" % (pkg.name, pkg.summary)