Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-22 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 07:35 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote: > > ... > > > > That's because man pages are less than useless. > > Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written > in a special dialect of English that renders

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-20 Thread Susemail
On Friday 19 January 2007 17:43, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-19-07 22:27]: > [...] > > > That's because man pages are less than useless. > > No, they are an important part of the linux documentation. But they > can be difficult to understand. > This is very true

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 20 January 2007 11:11, James Knott wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> That's because man pages are less than useless. > > > > Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are > > written in a special d

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-20 Thread James Knott
Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote: > >> ... >> >> That's because man pages are less than useless. >> > > Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written > in a special dialect of English that renders them unintelligible to >

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-20 Thread Kai Ponte
On Saturday 20 January 2007 07:35, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote: > > ... > > > > That's because man pages are less than useless. > > Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written > in a special dialect of English that renders t

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote: > ... > > That's because man pages are less than useless. Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written in a special dialect of English that renders them unintelligible to managers. > -- > kai RRS -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-20 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Kai Ponte wrote: > [...] > > That's because man pages are less than useless. Nonsense. Manual pages are perfect as a reference, nobody really knows all the options for Unix commands. They are at least 10 times better than info pages. However, both are usually not meant to be a tutorial or a beg

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-19 Thread Kai Ponte
On Friday 19 January 2007 19:43, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-19-07 22:27]: > [...] > > > That's because man pages are less than useless. > > No, they are an important part of the linux documentation. But they > can be difficult to understand. Hence my statement.

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-19 Thread J Sloan
Greg Wallace wrote: > Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me what > package it's in, if any.". rpm -qf /path/to-file Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-19 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-19-07 22:27]: [...] > That's because man pages are less than useless. No, they are an important part of the linux documentation. But they can be difficult to understand. -- Patrick ShanahanRegistered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.n

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Friday 19 January 2007 15:54, Greg Wallace wrote: > > ... > > > > I did read the man pages but couldn't find this. ... > > That's because man pages are less than useless. Yup. They've been known to suck the knowledge right out of your head.

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-19 Thread Kai Ponte
On Friday 19 January 2007 15:54, Greg Wallace wrote: > On Friday, January 19, 2007 @ 4:01 PM, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > >On 2007-01-19 15:37, Greg Wallace wrote: > >> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me > > what > > >> package it's in, if any.". > > > >You really

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
Greg, On Friday 19 January 2007 15:54, Greg Wallace wrote: > On Friday, January 19, 2007 @ 3:55 PM, Randall Schulz wrote: > >On Friday 19 January 2007 13:37, Greg Wallace wrote: > >> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. > >> Tell me what package it's in, if any.". > > >

RE: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-19 Thread Greg Wallace
On Friday, January 19, 2007 @ 4:01 PM, Darryl Gregorash wrote: >On 2007-01-19 15:37, Greg Wallace wrote: >> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me what >> package it's in, if any.". >You really need to start reading manpages and info pages, and "command >--help" is

RE: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-19 Thread Greg Wallace
On Friday, January 19, 2007 @ 3:55 PM, Randall Schulz wrote: >On Friday 19 January 2007 13:37, Greg Wallace wrote: >> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell >> me what package it's in, if any.". >% rpm -q --whatprovides /name/of/file >E.g.: >% rpm -q --whatprovide

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-19 Thread James Knott
Darryl Gregorash wrote: > On 2007-01-19 15:37, Greg Wallace wrote: > >> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me what >> package it's in, if any.". >> > You really need to start reading manpages and info pages, and "command > --help" is also often useful. :-)

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-19 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-19 15:37, Greg Wallace wrote: > Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me what > package it's in, if any.". You really need to start reading manpages and info pages, and "command --help" is also often useful. :-) rpm -qf /dir/file -- The best way to acce

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 19 January 2007 13:37, Greg Wallace wrote: > Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell > me what package it's in, if any.". % rpm -q --whatprovides /name/of/file E.g.: % rpm -q --whatprovides /bin/cat coreutils-5.3.0-20.2 > Thanks, > Greg Wallace RRS --

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-19 Thread Rauch Christian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Wallace schrieb: > Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me what > package it's in, if any.". rpm -qf > Thanks, > Greg Wallace Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFsT2Tay

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-19 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Freitag, 19. Januar 2007 22:37 schrieb Greg Wallace: > Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. > Tell me what package it's in, if any.". rpm -qf /file bye, MH -- gpg key fingerprint: 5F64 4C92 9B77 DE37 D184 C5F9 B013 44E7 27BD 763C -- To unsubscribe, e-

[opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-19 Thread Greg Wallace
Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me what package it's in, if any.". Thanks, Greg Wallace -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]