Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1701 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 11:01 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> On Friday, 2009-09-18 at 21:58 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
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> > On Friday 18 September 2009 12:46:12 Mike McMullin wrote:
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> > >   You might want to install pin, and use that for scanning the install
> > > media database, webpin is also handy that way, but I don't know where to
> > > get it.
> >
> > In YaST Software Management, Search can provide all packages that contain
> > certain string if you check RPM provides, and for clean results, uncheck 
> > first
> > 2-3 lines that are enabled by default.
> >
> > (sometimes is good to be childish, and play with options in YaST)
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> Yast doesn't search in the list of files provided by an rpm if it is not 
> installed, whereas pin does. It is sometimes more useful when wanting to 
> find what rpm is needed by the configure scripts.
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> But not always; for example, Cristian wrote:
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> ] libmagic is part of the "file" package, and you need file-devel to link
> ] custom build applications with that library.
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> Pin doesn't find any file-devel, but webpin does find it, in the oss repo. 
> Why? Because pin does its search in the /var/lib/pin/ARCHIVES.gz archive, 
> which is typically retrieved from the DVD, and only lists what the DVD 
> contains.
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> We would need an ARCHIVES.gz containing the whole oss + non-oss repo list.

  Constantly updated at that.  BTW where does one get webpin?

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