On 01/07/07, Tony Nelson wrote:
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'.
No package "Provides: stddef.h".
So if Yum on FC6 returns package names when running "yum whatprovides stddef.h", this can only mean that it adds '*' wildcards to match against all file paths that somehow are related to the string "stddef.h". That sounds weird.
With F7 one certainly needs to use "*stddef.h" or else gets no results.
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Michael Schwendt