Re: pathnames, etc. as required capabilities

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

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> >    - The RPM package that provides the RPM library
> >      itself (rpm-4.4.2-37.el5.i386.rpm for CentOS 5)
> >      doesn't list capabilities such as
> >      "rpmlib(CompressedFileNames)".  Is there any way,
> >      just by using RPM library calls to get info from
> >      the RPM package, to determine whether it provides
> >      things such as "rpmlib(CompressedFileNames)"?  If
> >      not, how do I use RPM library calls to ask the RPM
> >      library on an installed system which capabilities
> >      of this type it provides?
> >
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Sorry, I did not answer you question precisely.

The rpmlib(...) dependencies are part of the rpm implementation, not the rpm
package.

You can find out what capabilities are provided by the implementation using
--showrc,
which will also display the "features" that are being tracked with
rpmlib(...) dependencies.

73 de Jeff

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