2010/7/22 Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj(a)ednet.ns.ca>:
On 07/22/2010 02:27 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
>
> I notice that I do not have virtuoso-opensource-utils installed. I ran yum
> info
> virt-o-u... and all it tells me is that these are utilities.
>
> What would this package do for me? What commands, functions does it
> provide?
> What is in it that I might actually like to use or would conceivably use?
>
> How do I get yum to tell me the above in the future, without me having to
> ask
> on a forum (for similar future cases when I wish to know what a package
> actually does, since yum info barely ever really tells you much at all
> upon
> which to base a should I/should I not install question on)?
Something like this will show you what files are in the package without
installing:
yumdownloader virtuoso-opensource-utils && rpm -qlp
virtuoso-opensource-utils-6.1.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
On a side note the same can be achieved with "repoquery --list
virtuoso-opensource-utils" which will do the same thing using repo
metadata rather than downloading the package. repoquery is contained
in the yum-utils.
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