which source file/rpm to look at?

Don Russell fedora at drussell.dnsalias.com
Fri Mar 18 21:15:59 UTC 2005


Stuart Sears wrote:

> first you find out which rpm uname comes from:
> [stuart at behemoth ~]$ which uname
> /bin/uname
> [stuart at behemoth ~]$ rpm -qf /bin/uname
> coreutils-5.2.1-31
> the same approach applies to xscreensaver.
> 
> you then find the .src.rpm on one of the discs (dunno which one)

Thanks... I knew it had to be simple.... :-)

I used rpm -q xscreensaver --whatprovides
and that worked great.... but the real trick was using "which" and the 
whole result from that command...

That is,
	rpm -q uname --whatprovides
doesn't work, but
	rpm -q /bin/uname --whatprovides
does work

Don




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