security update process failure

[Steve Grubb]

On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 09:02:17 AM Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:57:01AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
> >   libcap provides posix capabilities support - fair question would be
> > 
> > how to get a list of applications which use libcap stuff it provides.
> > 
> >   rpm -q -l libcap
> >  
> >  shows these are provided:
> > /lib64/libcap.so.2
> > /lib64/libcap.so.2.17
> > /lib64/security/pam_cap.so
> > /usr/sbin/capsh
> > /usr/sbin/getcap
> > /usr/sbin/getpcaps
> > /usr/sbin/setcap
> > 
> >  One could troll all binaries on the system asking which ones employ
> > 
> > libcap.so.2 using ldd - and perhaps egrep for calls to getcap and the
> > like ...
> > 
> >  I suspect someone has or has written a tool to catalog these things -
> >  
> >  anyone?
> 
> repoquery --whatrequires libcap

# rpm -q --whatrequires 'libcap.so.2()(64bit)'

-Steve