yum whatprovides not matching files

inode0 inode0 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 18:38:40 UTC 2007


On Nov 21, 2007 11:13 AM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno at gmail.com> wrote:
> For example, I have kwrite installed, but ...
>
> [root at home etc]# which kwrite
> /usr/bin/kwrite
> [root at home etc]# yum whatprovides kwrite
> fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 4.9 MB    00:06
> adobe-linux-i386          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.3 kB    00:00
> adobe-linu: ################################################## 2/2
> updates                   100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 466 kB    00:05
> No Matches found
>
> You can see that yum never bothers to download the filelists.
>
> Is there a way to make this work as expected?

yum whatprovides /*/kwrite

is a bit clumsy but should work.

John




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