What provides

["J. A. Landamore" <jal mcs le ac uk>]

I am a SPARC Solaris admin who has had the management of a few RH PCs dropped on 
him after a security scare, hence the naivity of this question.  How do I find 
out which package provides a file?  I've looked quickly at the documentation but 
all I can find is rpm -q --whatprovides <x>  This doesn't work if the source 
package isn't on the system.  We did a minimal install and the user now wants  
another couple of packages added.  Getting those packages is no problem, but 
they won't install because of dependancy problems.  It appears that I need to 
interrogate the main RH site that contains all the packages, how do I do that?

Thanks for any help provided

John Landamore