On May 19, 2004, Matt Hansen <helios82@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, how can one if at all be used differently to the other? The man page > states that the "-f" option is used to 'Query package owning FILE' while > the "--whatprovides" is used to 'Query all packages that provide the > CAPABILITY capability'. So these words might suggest they can do > different things, but my example above doesn't think so.. What exactly > is a "capability" defined as? A capability can be a file, but it can also be an arbitrary name that a package provides. For example, on FC2 (with X.org X11, no XFree86): [aoliva@free aoliva]$ rpm -q --whatprovides XFree86-libs xorg-x11-libs-6.7.0-2 [aoliva@free aoliva]$ rpm -qf XFree86-libs error: file XFree86-libs: No such file or directory -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
