Re: RPM and dependencies

[Duncan Hill <dhill cricalix net>]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Devon wrote:

> Missing feature? The redhatprovides flag to rpm is useful for this.
> Given a known library name, for example:
>
> $  rpm --redhatprovides libcrypto.so.2
> openssl-0.9.6b-8
>
> Just install the rpmdb-redhat package.

It would be useful if that was in the RPM man page, but it isn't - at
least not in my installation.  However, that explanation has made it
clearer that -q --whatprovides (which is documented) will work on files.
The term virtual in the man page made me think stuff like smtp, pop3
etc.

Ta.

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