Given a path, find the zypper package and the repository

Question

I'm using SUSE12SP5 system. Given a path, I'm trying to get it's package. So for example, for etc/ssh/ssh_config I want to get openssh. For that I use the following command:

> rpm -qf --queryformat "[%{NAME}]" /etc/ssh/ssh_config
openssh

So basically I get a list of paths and run this command on it to find the packages (if there are any). Also, I read in another topic that I can use zypper info packagename to find the repository. It works for /etc/ssh/ssh_config but I noticed that there some packages that I can't find which repository the package was installed from. So for example for /tmp the rpm command results with:

> rpm -qf --queryformat "[%{NAME}]" /tmp
filesystemcfengine

But if I run zypper info on the packages I get:

> zypper info filesystemcfengine
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


package 'filesystemcfengine' not found.

So to sum up, I want to do the following: Given a list of paths, I want to find it's package (if there is any) and the repository from which is was installed. How it can be done?

Answer 1

CFEngine is a configuration management tool, which modifies the filesystem to achieve a configuration goal.

If the files you are inspecting were provisioned by cfengine, it might explain why you get "filesystemcfengine" from your rpm query.