[CentOS] repoquery -f does not work well.

[Jonathan Billings]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 09:01:53AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> That's an interesting thing. Ideally I would prefer the query command do
> exactly what I asked, if I asked about existence of some path, I would
> like to check that path and tell me which package brought it to my box. In
> an idiotic situation when symlink came with one package and actual file
> symlink points to from another, when I query symlink, I'd like to get an
> answer about it. Am I missing something?

Without looking at the source itself, I can't be sure, but I suspect
that 'rpm' first did look for the given path in the RPM database,
failed to find anything, and then performed the equivalent of
'readlink -f /etc/httpd/modules/mod_proxy.so', canonicalizing the
path, then searching again.

I'm not sure what you're describing in your example.  RPMs can provide
symlinks, and they show up in the package manifest.  If a package
included a symlink to a directory or file owned by another package,
I'm sure that querying the path to the symlink would return the
package that includes the symlink, not the package that includes what
the link pointed to.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>