15 Jul
2005
15 Jul
'05
12:32 p.m.
Simon Perreault wrote:
On Friday 15 July 2005 08:05, Prasad Pillarisetti wrote:
How do I find out the package owning a particular file, when no package managers are installed?
If RPM is not installed, then no package can own a file since packages do not exist.
Maybe you should have answered: Google!
Indeed. I was scratching my head wondering why anyone would expect to get a "package name" for a file when it was not placed on the file system by a package manager. There's no automated way to determine which software installation owns a particular file if you don't have a suitable package management system installed. So, yes, it sounds like a trick question or (more likely) an inexperienced person or PHB doing the interviewing.
Cheers,
C