dnf whatprovides and library files

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 08:38:38PM +0900, Mamoru TASAKA wrote:
> >I believe RPM isn't tracking the symlink — it's just canonicalizing the
> >filename when you do the --query --file (or -qf). Easy to do _on_ the
> >system, not so good when you're asking about a non-existent file.
> On installed files rpm -qf checks the "fingerprint" of the file
> and compares with all rpmdb entries having the same basename
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-February/161994.html

Ah — where "fingerprint" is "basically inode + device combination" —
that definitely is a local-only thing (as that message says,
uninstalled files can't have this sort of fingerprint).

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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader