Package/System-specific repoquery

[Andrew Overholt]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:30:15 -0700
> Richi Plana <myfedora at richip.dhs.org> 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.)

We tried to do this with OSGi "provides" information.  I'm not sure 
about the status of that, though.  The person who wrote the rpm macro to 
scrape the information went back to school and I haven't had time to see 
why it's not working.

Andrew