[NCLUG] Re: [lug] What RPM is this file in?

[Nate Duehr]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:56:02PM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> If you have the package installed, you can easily enough do
> "rpm -qf /bin/ping" to find out what package provides that.  But, if you
> know you need "/usr/sbin/smbd", how do you find out what package it's in?
> A question many of us have had, and until now you kind of had to grep
> through all your package files.
> 
> Try going to:
> 
>    http://community.tummy.com/krudlookup.cgi
> 
> and typing in the name of a file you're looking for...  It emulates a
> system with *ALL* the latest KRUD packages installed.  For example, you can
> ask it what provides "/boot/vmlinux-2.2.17-14", and it will tell you:
> 
>    Package File Name             On KRUD CD       Package Size
>    kernel-2.2.17-14.i386.rpm          1              6.8 MB
>    kernel-2.2.17-14.i586.rpm          1              6.7 MB
>    kernel-2.2.17-14.i686.rpm          1              6.7 MB
> 
> Not bad for an hour's worth of hacking, eh?

Not at all... very nice!  :-)

For those running Debian, in case you were not aware -- there's a
similar tool for looking up files on the Debian webpages, but my
favorite interface to it is through "Apt the Bot" on irc.debian.org
(openprojects.net)... 

/msg apt find blah

:-)

Very cool.

Hey -- with the new irc server, perhaps that's next?  A bot named rpm
for the #krud channel?  heh heh..

-- 
Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>

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