[plug] Which RPM?

[Richard Sharpe]

At 01:02 PM 6/13/00 +0800, David Griffiths wrote:
>>I ended up using a different method. Something like:
>>
>>  cd /cdrom/Redhat/RPMS
>>  foreach f ( *.rpm ) { rpm -ql $f | gzip > /rhfiles/$f.gz }
>>
>>Now I can just "zgrep <pattern> /rhfiles/*" and get a list of the files
>>with the package names. Works for older redhats too of course. And much
>>less disk space.
>>
>Doesn't work for me Mike ("ql" lists installed package files).
>Did you mean "rpm -qpl $f" ?
>How do you get the package names printed as well with each file?

I suspect he was typing fast and forgot the p. The zgrep should provide the
package name as it is part of the file name that the file listing goes in.

Another method I use, and teach on my course, to quickly find what RPM a
file is in when you are trying to satisfy dependencies, is the following:

for f in /mnt/cdrom/<distro>/RPMS/*.rpm
do
  if [ "`rpm -qlp $f | grep <some-file>`" != "" ]; then echo $f; fi
done

It is not the be-all and end-all, but it does the job. It works for RedHat,
TurboLinux and Mandrake, AFAIK.

It will list out more than one RPM in many cases, but it is easy to pick
which one is the correct one.

>cheers,
>
>Dave.
>
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