How to use repoquery?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:04:02 -0600, inode0 wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> > $ winword
> > p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so:
> > /usr/lib/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
> > file or directory
> >
> > $ repoquery --whatprovides /usr/lib/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so
> > [... silence...]

And "Silence" means what here? That it returned without printing
anything? Or that it hasn't returned yet at the time of writing/sending
your mail about it?

The former is commonly written as:

  $ repoquery --whatprovides /usr/lib/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so
  $

> > Any ideas?
> 
> Hrm.
> 
> Either
> 
> yum provides */gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so
> 
> or
> 
> repoquery --whatprovides */gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so
> 
> should work although depending on circumstances it may need to be run
> as root or with the --plugins option in the latter case. Using the
> correct full path should be ok too although it might not return all
> things that provide gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so.

If the error message is about a specific path, you would first submit a
query about that path. If that doesn't return anything, it can make sense
to submit further queries, trying to find out whether the file might be
available in some other place. That can lead to false positives, however,
depending on what you search for. And btw, searching for RPM Provides isn't
trivial on platforms like x86_64:

  $ repoquery --whatprovides /usr/lib64/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so
  gnome-keyring-0:3.6.2-2.fc18.x86_64

  $ repoquery --whatprovides gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so
  $

But:

  $ repoquery --whatprovides 'gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so()(64bit)'
  gnome-keyring-0:3.6.2-2.fc18.x86_64
  gnome-keyring-0:3.6.2-2.fc18.x86_64