Fwd: How can i find out, what files a RPM is provding?

[David Hoffman]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:03:30 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie
 wrote:
> Don't you have to install an additional .rpm to get this functionality?  I had to, just in case the .rpm was not installed on my system.  Details are in the archive on installation of the appropriate files.

I've never heard that. The query function is a standard function of
RPM. If you have RPM installed (and you should) then you should be
able to perform any queries of your RPM packages.

Try rpm -? for additional help.

rpm -q  = query mode
--whatprovides is an argument to the query mode that tells RPM to look
at it's own data and tell you which packages provided a particular
file.

For example, I want to know what package I installed that provided me
with libmysqlclient.so.10:

rpm -q --whatprovides libmysqlclient.so.10

Then it gives me back an answer:
MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9-0

So any file that is installed from an RPM package can be queried this
way to let you know which package installed the file.

I didn't have to add any additional packages to be able to do this
query -- or at least none that I intentionally added.

--

David
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[Paul Howarth]

David Hoffman wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:03:30 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie
>  wrote:
> > Don't you have to install an additional .rpm to get this functionality?  I had to, just in case the .rpm was not installed on my system.  Details are in the archive on installation of the appropriate files.
>
> I've never heard that. The query function is a standard function of
> RPM. If you have RPM installed (and you should) then you should be
> able to perform any queries of your RPM packages.
>
> Try rpm -? for additional help.
>
> rpm -q  = query mode
> --whatprovides is an argument to the query mode that tells RPM to look
> at it's own data and tell you which packages provided a particular
> file.
>
> For example, I want to know what package I installed that provided me
> with libmysqlclient.so.10:
>
> rpm -q --whatprovides libmysqlclient.so.10
>
> Then it gives me back an answer:
> MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9-0
>
> So any file that is installed from an RPM package can be queried this
> way to let you know which package installed the file.
>
> I didn't have to add any additional packages to be able to do this
> query -- or at least none that I intentionally added.

This doesn't work for *any* file, just *some* files.

For instance:
# rpm -q --whatprovides nsswitch.conf
no package provides nsswitch.conf
# rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/nsswitch.conf
glibc-2.3.4-2.fc3

For most files you'll need to specify the full path to the file. Shared 
libraries are a special case because RPM treats them as special cases.

Paul.

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 10:12 -0600, David Hoffman wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:03:30 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie
>  wrote:
> > Don't you have to install an additional .rpm to get this functionality?  I had to, just in case the .rpm was not installed on my system.  Details are in the archive on installation of the appropriate files.
>
> I've never heard that. The query function is a standard function of
> RPM. If you have RPM installed (and you should) then you should be
> able to perform any queries of your RPM packages.
>
> Try rpm -? for additional help.
>
> rpm -q  = query mode
> --whatprovides is an argument to the query mode that tells RPM to look
> at it's own data and tell you which packages provided a particular
> file.
>
> For example, I want to know what package I installed that provided me
> with libmysqlclient.so.10:
>
> rpm -q --whatprovides libmysqlclient.so.10
>
> Then it gives me back an answer:
> MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9-0
>
> So any file that is installed from an RPM package can be queried this
> way to let you know which package installed the file.
>
> I didn't have to add any additional packages to be able to do this
> query -- or at least none that I intentionally added.

No extra packages are needed for the query, but the query will also only
work, as has been stated, only with files that were installed from RPM.
If the file was put in the system from CPAN or some other source the rpm
query should fail to produce output about it.

Also, the full path to the file must be provided in the query since that
is the way the package identifies the file.
> --
> David
>
> There are only 10 kinds of people in this world,
> those who understand binary, and those who don't.
>
> --
> David
>
> There are only 10 kinds of people in this world,
> those who understand binary, and those who don't.

[Rick Stevens]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 10:12 -0600, David Hoffman wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:03:30 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie
> >  wrote:
> > > Don't you have to install an additional .rpm to get this functionality?  I had to, just in case the .rpm was not installed on my system.  Details are in the archive on installation of the appropriate files.
> >
> > I've never heard that. The query function is a standard function of
> > RPM. If you have RPM installed (and you should) then you should be
> > able to perform any queries of your RPM packages.
> >
> > Try rpm -? for additional help.
> >
> > rpm -q  = query mode
> > --whatprovides is an argument to the query mode that tells RPM to look
> > at it's own data and tell you which packages provided a particular
> > file.
> >
> > For example, I want to know what package I installed that provided me
> > with libmysqlclient.so.10:
> >
> > rpm -q --whatprovides libmysqlclient.so.10
> >
> > Then it gives me back an answer:
> > MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9-0
> >
> > So any file that is installed from an RPM package can be queried this
> > way to let you know which package installed the file.
> >
> > I didn't have to add any additional packages to be able to do this
> > query -- or at least none that I intentionally added.
>
> No extra packages are needed for the query, but the query will also only
> work, as has been stated, only with files that were installed from RPM.
> If the file was put in the system from CPAN or some other source the rpm
> query should fail to produce output about it.
>
> Also, the full path to the file must be provided in the query since that
> is the way the package identifies the file.

I think the OP was asking which files a given RPM has in it.

If the RPM has been installed, then use "rpm -qf rpmname".  If the RPM
HASN'T been installed yet, then "rpm -qf -p /path/to/rpmfile.rpm"

You might also find it interesting to use "-qif" rather than just "-qf".
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[Rick Stevens]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 10:12 -0600, David Hoffman wrote:
> > > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:03:30 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie
> > >  wrote:
> > > > Don't you have to install an additional .rpm to get this 
> > > > functionality?  I had to, just in case the .rpm was not installed on 
> > > > my system.  Details are in the archive on installation of the 
> > > > appropriate files.
> > >
> > > I've never heard that. The query function is a standard function of
> > > RPM. If you have RPM installed (and you should) then you should be
> > > able to perform any queries of your RPM packages.
> > >
> > > Try rpm -? for additional help.
> > >
> > > rpm -q  = query mode
> > > --whatprovides is an argument to the query mode that tells RPM to look
> > > at it's own data and tell you which packages provided a particular
> > > file.
> > >
> > > For example, I want to know what package I installed that provided me
> > > with libmysqlclient.so.10:
> > >
> > > rpm -q --whatprovides libmysqlclient.so.10
> > >
> > > Then it gives me back an answer:
> > > MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9-0
> > >
> > > So any file that is installed from an RPM package can be queried this
> > > way to let you know which package installed the file.
> > >
> > > I didn't have to add any additional packages to be able to do this
> > > query -- or at least none that I intentionally added.
> >
> > No extra packages are needed for the query, but the query will also only
> > work, as has been stated, only with files that were installed from RPM.
> > If the file was put in the system from CPAN or some other source the rpm
> > query should fail to produce output about it.
> >
> > Also, the full path to the file must be provided in the query since that
> > is the way the package identifies the file.
>
> I think the OP was asking which files a given RPM has in it.
>
> If the RPM has been installed, then use "rpm -qf rpmname".  If the RPM
> HASN'T been installed yet, then "rpm -qf -p /path/to/rpmfile.rpm"
>
> You might also find it interesting to use "-qif" rather than just "-qf".

DOH!  "rpm -ql" not "-qf" (what the heck was I thinking?)
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[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 10:55 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 10:12 -0600, David Hoffman wrote:
> > > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:03:30 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie
> > >  wrote:
> > > > Don't you have to install an additional .rpm to get this functionality?  I had to, just in case the .rpm was not installed on my system.  Details are in the archive on installation of the appropriate files.
> > >
> > > I've never heard that. The query function is a standard function of
> > > RPM. If you have RPM installed (and you should) then you should be
> > > able to perform any queries of your RPM packages.
> > >
> > > Try rpm -? for additional help.
> > >
> > > rpm -q  = query mode
> > > --whatprovides is an argument to the query mode that tells RPM to look
> > > at it's own data and tell you which packages provided a particular
> > > file.
> > >
> > > For example, I want to know what package I installed that provided me
> > > with libmysqlclient.so.10:
> > >
> > > rpm -q --whatprovides libmysqlclient.so.10
> > >
> > > Then it gives me back an answer:
> > > MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9-0
> > >
> > > So any file that is installed from an RPM package can be queried this
> > > way to let you know which package installed the file.
> > >
> > > I didn't have to add any additional packages to be able to do this
> > > query -- or at least none that I intentionally added.
> >
> > No extra packages are needed for the query, but the query will also only
> > work, as has been stated, only with files that were installed from RPM.
> > If the file was put in the system from CPAN or some other source the rpm
> > query should fail to produce output about it.
> >
> > Also, the full path to the file must be provided in the query since that
> > is the way the package identifies the file.
>
> I think the OP was asking which files a given RPM has in it.

No, he wasn't. See:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-January/msg08167.html

"I want to check, whether I have Tar.pm installed on my system. This
must have been happened via yum - so rpm. yum provides is extremely slow
on this machine, so i would like to check this with rpm. So how can I
find out, which rpm-package is providing Tar.pm?"

And several different recipes have been provided to find the correct
answer.

Paul.

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

David Hoffman wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:03:30 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie
>  wrote:
> > Don't you have to install an additional .rpm to get this functionality?  I had to, just in case the .rpm was not installed on my system.  Details are in the archive on installation of the appropriate files.
>
> I've never heard that. The query function is a standard function of
> RPM. If you have RPM installed (and you should) then you should be
> able to perform any queries of your RPM packages.
>
> Try rpm -? for additional help.
>
> rpm -q  = query mode
> --whatprovides is an argument to the query mode that tells RPM to look
> at it's own data and tell you which packages provided a particular
> file.
>
> For example, I want to know what package I installed that provided me
> with libmysqlclient.so.10:
>
> rpm -q --whatprovides libmysqlclient.so.10
>
> Then it gives me back an answer:
> MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9-0
>
> So any file that is installed from an RPM package can be queried this
> way to let you know which package installed the file.
>
> I didn't have to add any additional packages to be able to do this
> query -- or at least none that I intentionally added.
>
> --
> David
>
> There are only 10 kinds of people in this world,
> those who understand binary, and those who don't.

What about rpm -qpl /path/to/package.rpm?