On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 08:36, David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 22:31, Jason Dixon wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 23:20, David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 21:03, the brilliant beast wrote:
> > Please be careful with the advice you hand out.  This is the 2nd
> > questionable RPM suggestion I've seen you post.  The correct command to
> > view installed files, as mentioned by Bret, is "rpm -ql <package>",
> > where <package> is the name of said package.
> > 
> oops, my mistake, yeah, sorry.

No worries.

> > If you're unsure of the name of the package, you can use the "rpm -qf
> > <file>" command to get the package that owns a particular file.  This is
> > in contrast to your earlier suggestion of "rpm -e --whatprovides `locate
> > apachectl`".  First, the --whatprovides option is used with the query
> > (-q) flag, not the delete (-e) flag.  In this case, the user should have
>
> I was just doing guess work, and I marked my suggestion as dubious.

Please don't guess.  When you give an answer on a list like this, you're
representing yourself and the community.  Make sure you have it right,
or, at the very least, *believe* it's right.  That's what manpages are
for.  :)

Ok, this thread is now officially dead.

-- 
Jason Dixon, RHCE
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net


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