On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Kevin Wilson <wkev...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> What is the usage of an empty RPM ? What it is for ?
> For example, on Fedora 20:
>
>  rpm -qpl  libvirt-1.1.3.3-2.fc20.x86_64.rpm
> shows:
> (contains no files)
>

It's effectively a meta-package that pulls in dependencies.

# yum deplist libvirt
package: libvirt.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: /bin/sh
   provider: bash.x86_64 4.2.45-6.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-client = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-client.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-client.i686 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon-config-network = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon-config-network.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-interface = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-interface.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-network = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-network.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-secret = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-secret.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-storage = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-storage.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-uml = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-uml.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21
  dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-xen = 1.2.1-2.fc21
   provider: libvirt-daemon-driver-xen.x86_64 1.2.1-2.fc21


-AdamM


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> Kevin Wilson
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