diff between rpm's '--whatprovides' and '-f'

[Michael Schwendt]

On 19 May 2004 13:46:00 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On May 19, 2004, Matt Hansen <helios82 at optushome.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > Ok, so where can I find a list of capabilities like the smtpdaemon?
> 
> rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}: %{provides}\n'

Terribly incomplete (a bug?). Compare

  rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}: %{provides}\n' \
    | grep postfix

with:

  rpm -q --provides postfix

The former lists only /usr/bin/mailq as provided by postfix. The latter
lists many more including smtpdaemon.