URPMF.8

urpmf - Finds the packages matching some conditions

    urpmf [options] <pattern-expression>

By default, urpmf outputs the list of the known packages that contain a file whose name or path was specified as an argument on the command-line. <pattern-expression> is the name or part of the name of the file you want to locate. Perl-style regular expressions are allowed. urpmf will then print a list of matching files, with their corresponding packages. By using options, you may format output differently, and search through other rpm tags. The default behaviour corresponds to the --files option; using other options makes urpmf search through other tags' contents.

Note that urpmf searches through the urpmi media (not in the system's rpm database  &emdash;  for that you should use rpm (8) instead).

--help

Prints a help message and exits.

--version

Prints the version number and exits.

--env directory

Use a different environment directly out of a bug report tarball.

--excludemedia medium1,...,mediumN

Do not use the given media.

--literal

Match literally instead of interpreting the argument as a regular expression.

-l

Equivalent to --literal.

--media medium1,...,mediumN

Select specific media to be used, instead of defaulting to all available media (or all update media if --update is used).

--sortmedia medium1,...,mediumN

Sort the given media, substrings may be used to simplify grouping. This way, media1 will be taken into account first, then media2, and so on. Media which aren't listed are taken into account after the others.

--synthesis file

Use the given synthesis file instead of urpmi db for searching packages.

--use-distrib directory

Use the given distribution tree instead of urpmi db for searching packages.

--uniq

Do not print identical lines twice.

--update

Use only update media. This means urpmf will only search through media marked as update.

--urpmi-root directory

Use the file system tree rooted for urpmi database and rpm install. Contrary to --root, the urpmi configuration comes from the rooted tree.

--verbose

Verbose mode. urpmf will emit various messages related to the parsing of media_info files for your media.

--wait-lock

If the urpmi or rpm db is busy, wait until it is available

-i

Ignore case distinctions in the patterns that follow.

-I

Honor case distinctions in the patterns that follow. This is the default behaviour.

-F string

Change field separator to string for the rest of the output line (it defaults to ':')

--qf format-string

Specify a printf-like output format.

--arch

Prints the architecture tag.

--buildhost

Prints the BuildHost tag.

--buildtime

Prints the BuildTime tag.

--conffiles

Prints the list of configuration files contained in the package. (Might be empty.)

--conflicts

Prints the Conflicts tags.

--description

Prints the Description tag.

--distribution

Prints the Distribution tag.

--epoch

Prints the Epoch tag.

--filename

Prints package file names.

--files

Prints the list of files contained in the rpm (this is the default if you specify no field).

--group

Prints the Group tag.

--license

Prints the License tag.

--name

Prints package names.

--obsoletes

Prints the Obsoletes tags.

--packager

Prints the Packager tag.

--provides

Prints the Provides tags.

--requires

Prints the Requires tag.

--size

Prints the Size tag.

--sourcerpm

Prints the names of source rpms.

--suggests

Prints the Suggests tag.

--summary

Prints the Summary tag.

--url

Prints the packages' URL.

--vendor

Prints the Vendor tag.

-m

Print the name of the media in which the package has been found.

-f

Print version, release and arch along with name of package. This modifies the effect of the --name option.

-e

Include code directly in the perl search expression. Use it with --debug to look at the generated perl code. In any cases, use it only if you know perl.

-a

Binary AND operator, true if both expressions are true.

-o

Binary OR operator, true if one expression is true.

!

Unary NOT, true if expression is false.

(

Left parenthesis to open a group expression.

)

Right parenthesis to close a group expression.

--debug

Includes debugging output.

The options to select tags (--arch, --buildhost and so on) control the output format of urpmf. If not explicitly specified somewhere else, the name of the rpm is printed first. Fields are separated by : until specified otherwise.

You can also use --qf for that. It takes a format string, where tags to be replaced are specified as %[-][number]tagname. The optional number indicates the length of the space-padding and the - character its justification (like in printf (3)).

The boolean operator switches allow you to construct complex expressions from regexps. Those expressions are then matched against the whole output line.

This command will list all perl-Apache modules, and list them along with the media in which they're been found, nicely indented :

    urpmf --qf '%-30name is found in media %media' perl-Apache

See urpmi.files (5).

urpmi.addmedia (8), urpmi.update (8), urpmi.removemedia (8), urpmi (8), urpmq (8), urpmi.files (5).

Pascal Rigaux <pixel@mandriva.com> (original author and current maintainer), Franc,ois Pons, Rafael Garcia-Suarez