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I am fairly new to rpm building and i have been trying to understand the syntax of "Provides" inside a spec file without success. I have the following spec file snippet for building clamav rpm:

Summary: End-user tools for the Clam Antivirus scanner Name: clamav Version: 0.103.12 Release: 1%{?dist} %package data Summary: Virus signature data for the Clam Antivirus scanner Requires: ns-clamav-filesystem = %{version}-%{release} Provides: data(clamav) = full Provides: clamav-db = %{version}-%{release} Obsoletes: clamav-db < %{version}-%{release} BuildArch: noarch %package update Summary: Auto-updater for the Clam Antivirus scanner data-files Requires: ns-clamav-filesystem = %{version}-%{release} Requires: ns-clamav-lib = %{version}-%{release} Provides: data(clamav) = empty Provides: clamav-data-empty = %{version}-%{release} Obsoletes: clamav-data-empty < %{version}-%{release} %package -n ns-clamd Summary: The Clam AntiVirus Daemon Requires: data(clamav) Requires: ns-clamav-filesystem = %{version}-%{release} Requires: ns-clamav-lib = %{version}-%{release} Requires: coreutils Requires(pre): shadow-utils

I am aware what the "Provides:" indicates here and also that parenthesis next to provides indicate the installation of a module (for that package). In my case, %package data (clamav-data) when installed, it will also state to rpm/yum that it provides clamav-db and data(clamav).

It is the data(clamav) i don't understand. How does it relate to the default package name prefix of clamav-data ? Shouldn't this be clamav(data) ?

How can I search this data(clamav) in yum/rpm? I can see this mentioned in the rpm info but when I install it how can I search it like I do on other packages? For instance yum info <package>

 # rpm -q --requires RPMS/x86_64/ns-clamd-0.103.12-1.el8.x86_64.rpm /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh coreutils data(clamav) # rpm -q RPMS/noarch/ns-clamav-data-0.103.12-1.el8.noarch.rpm --provides clamav-db = 0.103.12-1.el8 config(ns-clamav-data) = 0.103.12-1.el8 data(clamav) = full ns-clamav-data = 0.103.12-1.el8
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It is the data(clamav) i don't understand. How does it relate to the default package name prefix of clamav-data ? Shouldn't this be clamav(data) ?

Virtual provides aren't necessarily tied to the package name. For example, looking at a packaged Python module, we see:

$ rpm -q --provides python3-requests [...] python3dist(requests) = 2.31

Or similarly for a Perl module:

$ rpm -q --provides perl-Net-DNS perl(Net::DNS) = 1.43 perl(Net::DNS::Domain) = 1913 perl(Net::DNS::DomainName) = 1898 [...]

In this case, I don't think there's a particular "should" that anybody is following; it's simply a virtual dependency that is provided by multiple packages, which means that another package can declare a dependency on data(clamav) and have that requirement satisfied by any one of those packages.

How can I search this data(clamav) in yum/rpm? I can see this mentioned in the rpm info but when I install it how can I search it like I do on other packages? For instance yum info

You can search for your data(clamav) provides just like any other dependency. For example, to list available packages in your repositories that provide this resource:

yum repoquery --whatprovides 'data(clamav)'

Which on my system returns:

clamav-data-0:1.0.5-3.fc40.noarch clamav-data-0:1.0.7-1.fc40.noarch clamav-freshclam-0:1.0.5-3.fc40.i686 clamav-freshclam-0:1.0.5-3.fc40.x86_64 clamav-freshclam-0:1.0.7-1.fc40.i686 clamav-freshclam-0:1.0.7-1.fc40.x86_64

Or if you want to search locally installed rpms:

rpm -q --whatprovides 'data(clamav)'

The Fedora packaging guidelines contains several notes on the use of Provides:, although none of them explicitly cover the situation about which you're asking.

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