Hi, Thanks to Adam and Daniel for the quick answer. I am not an expert about RPMs. I just wonder where are these dependencies defined for libvirt (and in general for other RPMs), since the libvirt RPM file itself is an empty file ? Regards, Kevin On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Adam Miller <maxamillion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Kevin Wilson <wkevils@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> What is the usage of an empty RPM ? What it is for ? >> For example, on Fedora 20: >> >> rpm -qpl libvirt-1.1.3.3-2.fc20.x86_64.rpm >> shows: >> (contains no files) > > > It's effectively a meta-package that pulls in dependencies. > > # yum deplist libvirt > package: libvirt.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: /bin/sh > provider: bash.x86_64 4.2.45-6.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-client = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-client.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-client.i686 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon-config-network = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon-config-network.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-interface = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-interface.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-network = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-network.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-secret = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-secret.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-storage = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-storage.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-uml = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-uml.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-xen = 1.2.1-2.fc21 > provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-xen.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21 > > > -AdamM > >> >> >> Regards, >> Kevin Wilson >> >> -- >> devel mailing list >> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >> Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
