I think yum does go through contents of packages.  Try
yum provides \*xrdb\*


Steven Yellin

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Vladimir Fekete wrote:

> 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.
>