dnf whatprovides and library files

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 07:53:44AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> For example, on an F22 system....
> [root at f22k ~]# ll /lib64/libXv.so.1.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 19664 Aug 17  2014 /lib64/libXv.so.1.0.0

$ file /lib64
/lib64: symbolic link to `usr/lib64'


$ dnf whatprovides /usr/lib64/libXv.so.1.0.0
libXv-1.0.10-2.fc22.x86_64 : X.Org X11 libXv runtime library
Repo        : @System

> [egreshko at meimei ~]$ yum -whatprovides /lib64/libXv.so.1.0.0
> Loaded plugins: langpacks
> libXv-1.0.10-2.fc21.x86_64 : X.Org X11 libXv runtime library
> Repo        : installed
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /lib64/libXv.so.1.0.0
> 
> (dnf fails to find on F21 in the same manner)

The difference is documented (although lib is not mentioned) at:

http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-provides-bin-file-does-not-find-any-packages-on-fedora



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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader