Greg, On Friday 19 January 2007 15:54, Greg Wallace wrote:

On Friday, January 19, 2007 @ 3:55 PM, Randall Schulz wrote:

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On Friday 19 January 2007 13:37, Greg Wallace wrote:

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Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me what package it's in, if any.".

% rpm -q --whatprovides /name/of/file ...

Is this synonymous with rpm -qf

More or less. The --whatprovides refers to files that (potentially) satisfy dependencies in other packages. The -f option just asks which package contained the specified file. A file that's used internally by a package but that does not constitute part of a packages external interface would be fit the latter (-f) but not the former (--whatprovides). So --whatprovides is a subset of -f in the sense that not every file that would be found by -f would be found by --whatprovides. So really, the answer to your question is -f, not --whatprovides (with the -q being required for both, of course).

Thanks, Greg W

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Darryl Gregorash wrote:

On 2007-01-19 15:37, Greg Wallace wrote:

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Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me what package it's in, if any.".

You really need to start reading manpages and info pages, and "command --help" is also often useful. :-)

man rtfm ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 19 January 2007 15:54, Greg Wallace wrote:

On Friday, January 19, 2007 @ 4:01 PM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:

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On 2007-01-19 15:37, Greg Wallace wrote:

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Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me

what

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package it's in, if any.".

You really need to start reading manpages and info pages, and "command --help" is also often useful. :-)

rpm -qf /dir/file

I did read the man pages but couldn't find this. Maybe I couldn't get this out of it. Going back and looking at it again I can see that it's there, but not really in a very straightforward manner.

That's because man pages are less than useless. -- kai - theperfectreign@yahoo.com www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com www.filesite.org || www.donutmonster.com wo ist der ort für den ehrlichsten kuss ich weiss, dass ich ihn für uns finden muss... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* Kai Ponte [01-19-07 22:27]: [...]

That's because man pages are less than useless.

No, they are an important part of the linux documentation. But they can be difficult to understand. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 19 January 2007 17:43, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Kai Ponte [01-19-07 22:27]: [...]

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That's because man pages are less than useless.

No, they are an important part of the linux documentation. But they can be difficult to understand.

This is very true. Jerome

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On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote:

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That's because man pages are less than useless.

Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written in a special dialect of English that renders them unintelligible to managers.

-- kai

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Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote:

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That's because man pages are less than useless.

Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written in a special dialect of English that renders them unintelligible to managers.

I guess that means no words like "solutioning". ;-) http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert20070146612119.gif -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 2007-01-20 13:28, Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Saturday 20 January 2007 11:11, James Knott wrote:

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<snip> I guess that means no words like "solutioning". ;-)

The AI on "Andromeda Ascendant" sometimes responds "efforting" when instructed to carry out a task.

Ohh, these are even better than the verb "transition". -- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s² -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 07:35 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote:

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That's because man pages are less than useless.

Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written in a special dialect of English that renders them unintelligible to managers.

Written in geek not Greek. Not for the weak nor to be read in a week. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org