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Re: querying RPM's

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marthe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nes=F8en?= =)
Wed Nov 25 14:25:53 1998

Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:23:36 +0100
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From: Marthe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nes=F8en?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Gangfl=F8t?= <ulva@powahtech.net>
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>$ rpm -qpl * |grep [some_file]
>
>. . . which will tell me if it finds the file I want, but not which
>package it came from.

As far as I know there is no way to query for a file not already installed,
but this might be what you're looking for:

rpm -qf '/path/filename'



-Ulva


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