> > On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, James Oden wrote: > > >Just in case you don't know to find out what package a file belongs to > >in the RH distro: > > > > 1) Make sure you have rpmdb-redhat package installed. > > 2) Type: > > > > rpm --redhatprovides (full_path_to_file) > > More generally, use this to find dependencies, not just files. For > example, openssh-server requires "libcrypto.so.2", but doesn't give the > full path. You could ask: > right. Actually, when I first started working on distro's I did not quite understand that files become dependencies. Once I understood that it become quite helpful, though I am not so sure its a good idea (I prefer to think of dependencies as mapping to feature and feature sets)...james
