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. >