 | | | How to query the package owning the file? (no package manger installed) | How to query the package owning the file? (no package manger installed) 2005-07-16 - By Michael Schwendt
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On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:39:57 +0530, Truejack wrote:
> I had this question asked in a technical interview.
>
> How do I find out the package owning a particular file, when no
> package managers are installed?
This doesn't sound as if the question was phrased like that. Unless the
used terminology is a bit weird and, e.g., "package = tarball". Because
if you don't have package management software installed, you don't use
packages either. If however you install from tar archives, for instance,
it would be a common thing to keep a session log of each of your
installation activities.
> I am assuimg SRPMs are used to install the software?
No. Source RPMs create binary RPMs and hence need at least rpm2cpio
or, well, rpm to install them. For the former you need to keep logs
again as the RPM database is not used.
> Is this actually possible? Install the Linux OS without a package manager?
>
> I know "rpm -qf filename" gives the package owning the file.
> But how to get the package name when I don't have any package manager?
>
> Maybe this was a question to rattle me?
Maybe. It's at least somewhat likely that they wanted to see whether
you are familiar with command-line rpm and not just a graphical
front-end.
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