-----Original Message----- From: David Hoffman <dhoffman2004@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Jan 31, 2005 8:58 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: How can i find out, what files a RPM is provding?
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:33:45 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Roger Grosswiler wrote:
i want to check, whether i have Tar.pm installed on my system. This must have been happened via yum - so rpm.
yum provides is extremly slow on this machine, so i would like to check this with rpm. So how can i find out, whick rpm-package is providing Tar .pm?
Assuming Tar.pm is properly installed in your perl module tree:
$ rpm -qf `find /usr/lib/perl5 -name Tar.pm -print`
What about: rpm -q --whatprovides Tar.pm
-----James' Reply-----
Don't you have to install an additional .rpm to get this functionality? I had to, just in case the .rpm was not installed on my system. Details are in the archive on installation of the appropriate files.
I think you're confusing --whatprovides with --redhatprovides.
The former searches the current machine's RPM database for Provides: entries (which will include shared libraries such as libcurl.so.3 but not perl modules such as Tar.pm), and the latter searches the Provides: entries of an RPM database of a fully-installed system, which is provided by the rpmdb-fedora package, which may or may not be installed on any given system. Hence --redhatprovides may be able to tell you which package to install to satisfy a particular dependency, but only if you have the rpmdb-fedora package installed and the package you need is part of Fedora Core.
Paul.
