Package/System-specific repoquery

[Andrew Overholt]

Richi Plana wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 12:34 -0500, 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.)
> 
> 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.

IMO, without a module system this is less useful.  That's why I wanted 
to do it for OSGi provides and not the general case (well, that and it's 
  easier and useful to me as an Eclipse developer and packager :).

Andrew