On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:41:54 -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu <gmureddu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> What about rpm -qpl /path/to/package.rpm? -qpl will show you the files that are provided by a package which is yet uninstalled. This doesn't really help the original poster. He already has the file on his system, he just wants to know which package it came from. I think the larger issue here is that if the file is installed on his system as a result of doing a straight build rather than through installation of a package, then the rpm queries may not help since they will refer to RPMs internal database. That data is only updated when RPM transactions occur, and if he did a straight build, he didn't use RPM to install it. He specifically mentions the file name "Tar.pm" and says that he's sure it must have been installed using RPM via yum. And basically he was simply asking two questions: 1> Is Tar.pm installed on my system, and 2> Which package installed it. The answer to question 1 can be found by using locate. If need be, run updatedb first to update the locate database, and then use "locate Tar.pm" to find any matches. The answer to the second question can be found by using my original solution, "rpm -q --whatprovides /path/to/Tar.pm" (and of course use the correct path). If it was truly installed via RPM, then the RPM data would maintain the information about which package installed it. --
