Time synchronization with Red Hat 7.2

[David Cook]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:33:58AM -0800, John Oliver wrote:

> Yes, I know.  But if you don't have the package installed, you aren't
> likely to get an answer either way... :-)

The rpmdb-redhat has an rpm database of every package in the distro.  You
can specify this rpm db with --dbpath:

  rpm -qf --dbpath /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat filename

There are a couple "popt aliases" that work with this, e.g.:

  rpm -q --redhatprovides webserver
  rpm -q --redhatrequires librpm-4.0.3.so
  
See /usr/lib/rpm/rpmpopt-*

Apparently, you can define your own popt aliases in /etc/popt.  Haven't
tried it yet.

Dave