On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 23:05 +0200, Andras Simon wrote: > On 6/30/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 13:46 -0700, Ed Landaveri wrote: > > > Jeff, > > > You must supply the path to the command to succeed: > > > yum whatprovides /usr/lib/bcc/include/stddef.h > > > ----- > > > dev86-0.16.17-2.2 > > > ----- > > > > > If that was true there wold be no need for whatprovides. The output you > > indicate could be gotten from: > > rpm -qf /usr/lib/bcc/include/stddef.h > > If you have the package installed. The purpose of yum whatprovides is > that you know what package to install to get a certain file. > > Andras > I was being too obscure. If stdef.h was not installed you would not know that it should be installed in usr/lib/bcc/include/stddef.h -- ======================================================================= Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
