Hi Ross,

Thank you for the response.
rpm -qf <filename> would give us the package name.

Thanks,
Bharath


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Burton, Ross <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 5 June 2014 21:50, Bharath Chandra <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am working on a reverse enginnering project and I want to know by
> looking
> > at an executable , the recipe file from which it is generated. So, first
> I
> > need to understand by using what commands in a recipe file, we can
> generate
> > an executable.
>
> If you actually need to know what recipe produced a binary without
> instrumenting the binaries, then use the package manager: they all
> have a command to tell you what binary package installed a file, and
> from the binary package  you can determine the source package, and
> that's got the same name as the recipe.
>
> Ross
>



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