Re: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - Address dependency issue better

[Hoyt]

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From: "Geoffrey Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 12:02 PM
Subject: RE: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - Address dependency issue
better


>
> though i must admit that it's a litle hard to understand the dependency if
> there are .so. files installed, because say you need libfoo.so.1 for a
> particular package, you might not know what package provides that ...
> not even knows how to do a for i in *;do rpm rpm -qpl $i | grep -qi
> 'libfoo.so.1' && echo $i
> done ...
>
>


So if you were to create a shell script to do this named, for example,
"whatrpmprovides", what would it look like? (I'm a writer, not a
programmer).

Hoyt