dnf whatprovides and library files

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 09:30:08AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> To make things even more confusing, in my mind, is that it isn't as
> simple as symbolic links.
> [egreshko at meimei /]$ ll /usr/lib64/libXv.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 Aug 17  2014 /usr/lib64/libXv.so.1 -> libXv.so.1.0.0
> [egreshko at meimei /]$ dnf whatprovides /usr/lib64/libXv.so.1
> Using metadata from Wed Jun 10 07:46:42 2015 (1:42:24 hours old)
> libXv-1.0.10-2.fc21.x86_64 : X.Org X11 libXv runtime library
> Repo        : @System

Right, here, that package actually provides a file with that name,
which happens to be a link.

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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader