[Yum] repoquery --whatprovides /usr/lib/python2.4 in rawhide

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Wed Nov 8 21:40:47 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 21:55 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 16:11 -0800, David Lutterkort wrote:
> > When I run
> >         repoquery --whatprovides /usr/lib/python2.4
> > 
> > against Fedora rawhide, I get
> >         
> >         kdebindings-0:3.5.5-0.1.fc6.i386
> >         mailman-3:2.1.9-2.i386
> >         python-0:2.4.4-1.fc7.i386
> >         
> > I understand python (expected) and kdebindings (packaging mistake), but
> > can't find any reason why mailman would provide /usr/lib/python2.4. The
> > closest I have found is that it owns
> > '/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/lib/python2.4' .. is this a bug in
> > repoquery ?
> 
> It's a bug alright, but actually in yum (3.0) itself, repoquery simply
> calls yum methods here. sqlitesack.searchPrco() uses SQL "LIKE" in the
> search instead of exact matching (unless the name contains % characters)
> which seems to be the problem here.
> 
> To verify, the one-liner below disables using LIKE under any
> circumstances and then only python and kdebindings (which has a
> packaging bug) are left. Makes me wonder why is yum doing non-exact
> matching in file provides? Doesn't seem like a very good idea to me :)

b/c of wildcards, I think. for people doing searches like /usr/bi*/foo

b/c of the way the fileslists tables are made we have to assemble the
files list then check it against the string. I'm betting that's what it
is.

-sv





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