On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 10:55 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > Jeff Vian wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 10:12 -0600, David Hoffman wrote: > > > >>On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:03:30 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie > >><jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>>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've never heard that. The query function is a standard function of > >>RPM. If you have RPM installed (and you should) then you should be > >>able to perform any queries of your RPM packages. > >> > >>Try rpm -? for additional help. > >> > >>rpm -q = query mode > >>--whatprovides is an argument to the query mode that tells RPM to look > >>at it's own data and tell you which packages provided a particular > >>file. > >> > >>For example, I want to know what package I installed that provided me > >>with libmysqlclient.so.10: > >> > >>rpm -q --whatprovides libmysqlclient.so.10 > >> > >>Then it gives me back an answer: > >>MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9-0 > >> > >>So any file that is installed from an RPM package can be queried this > >>way to let you know which package installed the file. > >> > >>I didn't have to add any additional packages to be able to do this > >>query -- or at least none that I intentionally added. > >> > > > > > > No extra packages are needed for the query, but the query will also only > > work, as has been stated, only with files that were installed from RPM. > > If the file was put in the system from CPAN or some other source the rpm > > query should fail to produce output about it. > > > > Also, the full path to the file must be provided in the query since that > > is the way the package identifies the file. > > I think the OP was asking which files a given RPM has in it. No, he wasn't. See: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-January/msg08167.html "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 extremely slow on this machine, so i would like to check this with rpm. So how can I find out, which rpm-package is providing Tar.pm?" And several different recipes have been provided to find the correct answer. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
