What is the usage of an empty RPM ?
Laurent Rineau
laurent.rineau__fedora at normalesup.org
Tue Feb 4 18:15:55 UTC 2014
Le Tuesday 04 February 2014 19:30:16 Kevin Wilson a écrit :
> Hi,
> What is the usage of an empty RPM ? What it is for ?
> For example, on Fedora 20:
>
> rpm -qpl libvirt-1.1.3.3-2.fc20.x86_64.rpm
> shows:
> (contains no files)
That package does not contain files, but it does contain other things:
provides and requirements:
$ rpm -q libvirt --requires
libvirt-daemon = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt-daemon-config-network = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt-daemon-driver-uml = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt-daemon-driver-xen = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt-daemon-driver-interface = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt-daemon-driver-secret = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt-daemon-driver-network = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt-client = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
/bin/sh
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1
$ rpm -q libvirt --provides
bundled(gnulib)
libvirt = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
libvirt(x86-64) = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19
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