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

[Paul Howarth]

James Mckenzie wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hoffman <dhoffman2004 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Jan 31, 2005 8:58 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: How can i find out, what files a RPM is provding?
> 
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:33:45 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
>>Roger Grosswiler wrote:
>>
>>>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 extremly slow on this machine, so i would like to check
>>>this with rpm. So how can i find out, whick rpm-package is providing Tar
>>>.pm?
>>
>>Assuming Tar.pm is properly installed in your perl module tree:
>>
>>$ rpm -qf `find /usr/lib/perl5 -name Tar.pm -print`
>>
> 
> 
> What about:
> rpm -q --whatprovides Tar.pm
> 
> -----James' Reply-----
> 
> 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 think you're confusing --whatprovides with --redhatprovides.

The former searches the current machine's RPM database for Provides: 
entries (which will include shared libraries such as libcurl.so.3 but 
not perl modules such as Tar.pm), and the latter searches the Provides: 
entries of an RPM database of a fully-installed system, which is 
provided by the rpmdb-fedora package, which may or may not be installed 
on any given system. Hence --redhatprovides may be able to tell you 
which package to install to satisfy a particular dependency, but only if 
you have the rpmdb-fedora package installed and the package you need is 
part of Fedora Core.

Paul.