2010/7/22 Patrick Boutilier boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca:
On 07/22/2010 02:27 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
I notice that I do not have virtuoso-opensource-utils installed. I ran yum info virt-o-u... and all it tells me is that these are utilities.
What would this package do for me? What commands, functions does it provide? What is in it that I might actually like to use or would conceivably use?
How do I get yum to tell me the above in the future, without me having to ask on a forum (for similar future cases when I wish to know what a package actually does, since yum info barely ever really tells you much at all upon which to base a should I/should I not install question on)?
Something like this will show you what files are in the package without installing:
yumdownloader virtuoso-opensource-utils && rpm -qlp virtuoso-opensource-utils-6.1.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
On a side note the same can be achieved with "repoquery --list virtuoso-opensource-utils" which will do the same thing using repo metadata rather than downloading the package. repoquery is contained in the yum-utils.