yum: the package manager I love to hate

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:56:54 -0400,
  Jake Peavy <djstunks at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to buy a vowel.
> 
> Can someone tell me what package xxd is in?

If it is installed, you can do:
yum whatprovides `which xxd`
Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, dellsysidplugin, dellsysidplugin2, keys, list-
              : data, merge-conf, priorities, protect-packages, protectbase,
              : refresh-packagekit, upgrade-helper, verify, versionlock
livna                                                    | 2.4 kB     00:00     
local                                                    | 1.2 kB     00:00     
local                                                                       4/4
rpmfusion-free-updates                                   | 3.8 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-free-updates-testing                           | 3.8 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                | 3.8 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/primary_db                     |  80 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing                        | 3.8 kB     00:00     
updates                                                  | 4.4 kB     00:00     
updates-testing                                          | 4.4 kB     00:00     
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
Reading version lock configuration
2:vim-common-7.2.148-1.fc11.x86_64 : The common files needed by any version of
                                   : the VIM editor
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/xxd



2:vim-common-7.2.148-1.fc11.x86_64 : The common files needed by any version of
                                   : the VIM editor
Repo        : installed
Matched from:
Other       : Provides-match: /usr/bin/xxd