Le Tuesday 04 February 2014 19:30:16 Kevin Wilson a écrit : > 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) That package does not contain files, but it does contain other things: provides and requirements: $ rpm -q libvirt --requires libvirt-daemon = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt-daemon-config-network = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt-daemon-driver-uml = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt-daemon-driver-xen = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt-daemon-driver-interface = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt-daemon-driver-secret = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt-daemon-driver-network = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt-client = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 /bin/sh rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1 $ rpm -q libvirt --provides bundled(gnulib) libvirt = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 libvirt(x86-64) = 1.0.5.9-1.fc19 -- Laurent Rineau http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LaurentRineau -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct