Jeffrey D Anderson wrote:
> 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.
> 
It seems I was in error. Sorry for the misinformation.

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