so i just purchased a new server centos 5.2 and ran a yum update and found some weird thing with the updated version of yum, and i was wondering if anyone else has seen this.

the newest version is 3.2.8 my old box that i havent updated is running 3.0.5.

when i do a yum provides php.ini here is an example from each
3.0.5

php-common.x86_64 5.1.6-20.el5 base
Matched from:
/etc/php.ini

3.2.8 fails, it only works if i do yum provides /etc/php.ini
so i have to know the exact location of the file, sort of makes provides useless, the who,e point is to find what package has certain file, half the time you have no clue where the file is supposed to live.


also searches for each are different. in 3.0.5 it showed the package with the version and decent description and what repo it was from.
in 3.2.8 is just shows a one line thing of the package name with like a 5 word description, no version or anything.

has anyone else seen this? also is there anyway to make the newer version work like the old one?
if not whats an easy way to go back, because not knowing version, repos, and losing the "provides" functionality is just not an option.