What is 'Red Hat nash' in the boot sequence ??? (rpm comment)
Nifty Hat Mitch
mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jan 29 19:03:13 UTC 2005
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:55:41PM -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:55:41 -0400
> From: Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: What is 'Red Hat nash' in the boot sequence ??? (rpm comment)
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>
> Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
>
> >
> > $ locate nash
> > /usr/share/man/man8/nash.8.gz
> > /sbin/nash
> > $ rpm -q --whatprovides /sbin/nash
> > mkinitrd-3.5.22-1
> >
>
> I have noticed that a lot of people use rpm -q --whatprovides <file> to
> figure out RPM a file belongs to. But isn't rpm -qf <file> more correct?
> (and quicker to type as well :-) )
>
>
> rpm --help
>
> -f, --file query/verify package(s) owning file
>
>
> --whatprovides query/verify the package(s) which provide a dependency
Well I guess the first point is that I was mixing two styles
of flags. The more verbose flags are interesting and I suspect
prefered.
rpm --query --whatprovides /sbin/nash
rpm --query --file /sbin/nash
or
rpm -qf /sbin/nash
The second is that I don't exactly know the difference
between --file and --whatprovides yet.
Good catch. I have some homework to do unless someone knows
the specifics.
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