Yum has some sort of built-in "semantic sugar" which does a translation of short-hand package names to actual package names, but I can't figure out how to easily get a hold of it.
Here's a simple repro:
yum install vim(completes successfully, installs vim-enhanced-some-version...)rpm -q vim(reports not installed)yum info vim(no matching packages)yum install vim(vim-enhanced-blah-blah-blah already installed...)
Also, doing rpm -qa | grep "vim-" lists 4 packages but no way to easily figure out the "root" package that is the logical equivalent of just running yum install vim.
How can I figure out a sufficiently qualified package name so that I can do rpm or yum queries on it without having to do some silly dance with scraping the output from yum install?