Re: how to query package (a.k.a product) owning file

nospam420_at_yahoo.com
Date: 06/13/05 

Date: 13 Jun 2005 11:57:56 -0700

dirk dierickx wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:19:22 -0700, nospam420 wrote:
>
> > How do I find out what installed package (I guess the HP-UX term for
> > this is a
> > product) a particular file belongs to?
> >
> > I can list all of the files contained within a package with the
> > following:
> >
> > swlist -l file <packagename>
> >
> > But is it possible to do the reverse query?
>
> if i'm not mistaken, you can use the 'what' command, it will give you a
> listing of which package/patch the commands is from.

'what' does seem to be a tool to extract some information from some
files, but it does not appear to be anything integrated into the HP-UX
packaging system to do reverse queries. see the excerpt from the
what(1) man page below.

i would think that the most likely way to do this would be part of one
of the sw* commands, namely:

/usr/sbin/swacl
/usr/sbin/swagentd
/usr/sbin/swapinfo
/usr/sbin/swapon
/usr/sbin/swask
/usr/sbin/swconfig
/usr/sbin/swcopy
/usr/sbin/swinstall
/usr/sbin/swjob
/usr/sbin/swlist
/usr/sbin/swmodify
/usr/sbin/swpackage
/usr/sbin/swreg
/usr/sbin/swremove
/usr/sbin/swverify

but i haven't yet been able to find this functionality with any of
those commands.

- rich

-----

 NAME
      what - get SCCS identification information

 SYNOPSIS
      what [-s] file ...

 DESCRIPTION
      The what command searches the given files for all occurrences of
the
      pattern that get(1) substitutes for %Z% (currently @(#) at this
      printing) and prints out what follows until the first ", >,
new-line,
      \, or null character.

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