So maybe ya'll know what I'm about to say, but it took me a good long
while to work out wtf. was going on. Basic problem was/is that:

 yum install /etc/init.d/nfs

...doesn't work. I eventually found nfs-utils and installed it (rpm -qf
above file, on another box), and the above yum command still couldn't
find it ... I then tried:

 yum provides /etc/init.d/nfs

...and that worked! ... now I was very confused.


 Long story short, the file is actually "/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs" ... but
returnInstalledPackagesByDep() finds it anyway due to the magic
fingerprinting that we all love so much.

 I'm going to half propose the following patch, mainly to hurt
skvidal :), but I guess we probably have this problem other places? And
I assume it's not that common for users to do the above (and very
uncommon for pkgs :).

 Maybe a better way to fix it would be to require that all Fedora pkgs
use either /etc/rc.d/init.d _or_ /etc/init.d ... dito. any other dirs.
we have that act the same way.
 Probably need a tool/rpmlint to find them.

-- 
James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Red Hat
diff --git a/cli.py b/cli.py
index 231fd42..4b2ba94 100644
--- a/cli.py
+++ b/cli.py
@@ -494,6 +494,12 @@ class YumBaseCli(yum.YumBase, output.YumOutput):
                 val, msglist = self.localInstall(filelist=[arg])
                 continue # it was something on disk and it ended in rpm 
                          # no matter what we don't go looking at repos
+
+            # This is just to make skvidal cry...
+            if arg.startswith("/etc/init.d/"):
+                arg = "/etc*/init.d/" + arg[len("/etc/init.d/"):]
+            if arg.startswith("/etc/rc.d/init.d/"):
+                arg = "/etc*/init.d/" + arg[len("/etc/rc.d/init.d/"):]
             try:
                 self.install(pattern=arg)
             except yum.Errors.InstallError:

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