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Re: Question about files within rpms in SL(C)
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Jeffrey D Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeffrey D Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:38:57 -0700
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On Monday 09 March 2009 2:26:49 pm suvayu ali wrote:
> 2009/3/7 Steven J. Yellin <[log in to unmask]>:
> >    I think yum does go through contents of packages.  Try
> > yum provides \*xrdb\*
>
> that is inaccurate.
>
> yum [provides | whatpovides] is equivalent to rpm -q --whatprovides or
> rpm -qf which searches through the rpm database for installed
> packages.

No.

For example:

[root]# which xpdf
/usr/bin/which: no xpdf in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin)

[root]# yum provides /usr/bin/xpdf
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * epel: mirror.its.uidaho.edu
 * sl-base: ftp.scientificlinux.org
 * sl-security: ftp.scientificlinux.org
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
filelists.sqlite.bz2      100% |=========================| 4.5 MB    00:00
xpdf.x86_64 : A PDF file viewer for the X Window System


That's the functionality that the original poster was looking for.

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