On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:55 -0600, Richi Plana wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:34 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > OK, but how about the answer for the known universe of JVM's included in > > the fedora/RHEL repositories plus the jpackage repository, including > > the ones that don't actually contain the JVM, but do determine the > > location where it will be installed? > > This is what I'm starting to learn: supposedly, something like > "repoquery --whatprovides java-sdk" or "repoquery --whatprovides > java-jre" is the way to go. It's a virtual Provides thing, but when I > checked, JPackage's packages didn't come up (perhaps because they don't > provide binary packages or maybe the virtual Provides). > > The rpm, yum and repo query mechanisms coupled with their virtual > provides are proving to be pretty cool. > > P.S. Change of Subject: and thread? I just added a patch to repoquery to allow it to handle arbitrary url as repos. So you can: repoquery --repofrompath=http://some/repo/I/want/toquery --repofrompath=/some/local/path/also --repoid=toquery --repoid=also -q -a and it will grab the metadata from those to repositories and query them instead. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
