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Vladimir Fekete <[log in to unmask]>
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Vladimir Fekete <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 7 Mar 2009 23:53:22 +0100
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Hi *,

  I'm using SL(C) for a while. Since then I fight with following problem. 
Is there any normal human way how to find package from repository which contains 
specific file ? (For example, I'm looking for RPM which has xrdb inside) 
YUM is not good enough for this - it does not go through content of packages
nor has this information stored in any database (afaik).
  Is there any page similar in functionality to packages.debian.org, where 
I could write the name of the file and page returns list of packages that 
contains this file ? Thanks!

Regards,

   V. 

P.S. I used to search in google, but It always finds "xy" packages for many
distributions and I'm not sure whether I can mix packages from distributions
no matter whether they are based on same distro or not. Not mentioning the
fact that dependency tree may lead to core packages so I could realy harm
the integrity of my system this way.

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