yum whatprovides ??

[Jeffrey Ross]

I tried using the command "yum whatprovides stddef.h" to locate the 
include library last night.  Yum when through its process and came up 
with nothing in a fairly short order.

Am I not using the command correctly?

Jeff

[Michael Semcheski]

Try 'yum provides *stddef.h'

On 6/30/07, Jeffrey Ross  wrote:
> I tried using the command "yum whatprovides stddef.h" to locate the
> include library last night.  Yum when through its process and came up
> with nothing in a fairly short order.
>
> Am I not using the command correctly?
>
> Jeff
>
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[Steve Searle]

Around 02:48pm on Saturday, June 30, 2007 (UK time), Michael H. Semcheski scrawled:
> Try 'yum provides *stddef.h'

Though 'yum provides stddef.h' should work, and even yum whatprovides
stddef.h' works for me on FC6.

Steve

[Michael Semcheski]

For me, I have to use the wildcard in FC7.  Which is kind of annoying.

Mike

On 6/30/07, Steve Searle  wrote:
> Around 02:48pm on Saturday, June 30, 2007 (UK time), Michael H. Semcheski scrawled:
> > Try 'yum provides *stddef.h'
>
> Though 'yum provides stddef.h' should work, and even yum whatprovides
> stddef.h' works for me on FC6.
>
> Steve
>
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[Ed Landaveri]

Jeff,
You must supply the path to the command to succeed:
yum whatprovides /usr/lib/bcc/include/stddef.h
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--- Jeffrey Ross  wrote:
> I tried using the command "yum whatprovides
> stddef.h" to locate the 
> include library last night.  Yum when through its
> process and came up 
> with nothing in a fairly short order.
>
> Am I not using the command correctly?
>
> Jeff
>
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[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 13:46 -0700, Ed Landaveri wrote:
> Jeff,
> You must supply the path to the command to succeed:
> yum whatprovides /usr/lib/bcc/include/stddef.h
> dev86-0.16.17-2.2

If that was true there wold be no need for whatprovides. The output you
indicate could be gotten from:
rpm -qf /usr/lib/bcc/include/stddef.h
>

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[Andras Simon]

On 6/30/07, Aaron Konstam  wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 13:46 -0700, Ed Landaveri wrote:
> > Jeff,
> > You must supply the path to the command to succeed:
> > yum whatprovides /usr/lib/bcc/include/stddef.h
> > dev86-0.16.17-2.2
>
> If that was true there wold be no need for whatprovides. The output you
> indicate could be gotten from:
> rpm -qf /usr/lib/bcc/include/stddef.h

If you have the package installed. The purpose of yum whatprovides is
that you know what package to install to get a certain file.

Andras

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 23:05 +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 6/30/07, Aaron Konstam  wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 13:46 -0700, Ed Landaveri wrote:
> > > Jeff,
> > > You must supply the path to the command to succeed:
> > > yum whatprovides /usr/lib/bcc/include/stddef.h
> > > dev86-0.16.17-2.2
> >
> > If that was true there wold be no need for whatprovides. The output you
> > indicate could be gotten from:
> > rpm -qf /usr/lib/bcc/include/stddef.h
>
> If you have the package installed. The purpose of yum whatprovides is
> that you know what package to install to get a certain file.
>
> Andras

I was being too obscure. If stdef.h was not installed you would not know
that it should be installed in usr/lib/bcc/include/stddef.h
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[Richard England]

Jeffrey Ross wrote:
> I tried using the command "yum whatprovides stddef.h" to locate the 
> include library last night.  Yum when through its process and came up 
> with nothing in a fairly short order.
>
> Am I not using the command correctly?
>
> Jeff

Is it possible you were not running the command while you were logged in 
as root ?

~~R

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> > > > > "JR" == Jeffrey Ross  writes:

JR> I tried using the command "yum whatprovides stddef.h" to locate
JR> the include library last night.  Yum when through its process and
JR> came up with nothing in a fairly short order.

Which is not surprising since there is no package which provides
"state's.h".  However, the kernel-headers package provides
/usr/include/linux/stddef.h; you simply need to give a full path to
the file you're trying to find.

- J<

[Tony Nelson]

At 6:09 PM -0500 6/30/07, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > > > > > "JR" == Jeffrey Ross  writes:
>
> JR> I tried using the command "yum whatprovides stddef.h" to locate
> JR> the include library last night.  Yum when through its process and
> JR> came up with nothing in a fairly short order.
>
> Which is not surprising since there is no package which provides
> "state's.h".

What does "'states.h'" have to do with "stddef.h"?
> However, the kernel-headers package provides
> /usr/include/linux/stddef.h; you simply need to give a full path to
> the file you're trying to find.

I've seen this wrong answer twice now, and also the correct answer that one
does not need to provide a full path.  If only the filename is given, all
the packages that provide stddef.h in any location are found; if the full
path, only packages that provide it exactly there are found.  This is on
FC6; some report that on F7 it is necessary to say '*stddef.h'.

If yum is providing the answer quickly, it may well be that you ran it as a
normal user (as suggested by another), and thus from the cache.  Run it as
root and yum will be able to download the filelist info.