On 09/07/14 20:50, Ian Pilcher wrote:
On 07/09/2014 12:54 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote:
it's actually a symlink installed by the alternatives system:
Aargh! I never thought of that possibility.
/me has flashbacks to hours of frustration trying to install javaws
note that acpica-tools has an virtual provides acpidump, so just 'yum
provides acipdump' should work. Admittedly this is a corner case.
So once upon a time I was able to search for the package that provides
an executable by using it's unqualified name -- e.g. "yum provides
sshd".
Then that functionality went away. On a CentOS 6 system, for example:
root@n5550 pilcher]# yum provides sshd
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, show-leaves
Repository debug is listed more than once in the configuration
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.fdcservers.net
* elrepo-kernel: elrepo.org
* epel: less.cogeco.net
* extras: centos.mirror.freedomvoice.com
* rpmforge: mirror.lug.udel.edu
* updates: mirror.raystedman.net
Warning: 3.0.x versions of yum would erroneously match against filenames.
You can use "*/sshd" and/or "*bin/sshd" to get that behaviour
No Matches found
But I just noticed that it appears to work on Fedora 20:
[pilcher@ian n5550-acpi]$ sudo yum provides zvbid
Loaded plugins: langpacks, show-leaves
zvbi-0.2.33-16.fc20.i686 : Raw VBI, Teletext and Closed Caption decoding library
Repo : fedora
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/sbin/zvbid
...
So should I go back to using unqualified executable names?
Just broaden your search, so if you try `yum provides '*/acpidump'` and
it returns nothing, then try `yum provides '*acpidump'`, because the
latter should catch packages that have 'Provides: acpidump' and not
actual file provides (e.g. /usr/bin/acpidump).
--
Ahmad Samir
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