On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 12:34 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:30:15 -0700 > Richi Plana <myfedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Is there a way to do the equivalent of "repoquery --whatprovides > > <class-name>" Java? As in "repoquery --whatprovides > > com.netscape.sasl.Sasl"? I mean, the information is there. Is the > > semantics and the smarts available in repoquery? > > The package itself would have to Provide it, either manually or > automatically (and doing automatic provides such as these seems like > it would bloat the provides list pretty fast, but we have some history > with perl packages.) It's actually pretty important meta-info ... perhaps not for desktop or server users, but developers could use that info. I understand that RPM or rpmbuild examines the contents of JAR files. Again, it boils down to what kind of metainfo structure RPM/Yum has and the query language it supports. RPM has been multiplexing info in the package filename and Provides: field for a while and it's straining things both on the utilities end and the users' end. I guess when/if the time comes that metainfo/query is reconsidered, I'll bring this up again. Thanks! -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
