Description

Zypper currently only supports searching for files in a few pre-defined prefixes (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin, etc.) via using rpm provides. This means that it is difficult to find files that are not in the explicit list.

Doing this in zypper itself seems difficult.

Goals

Create a zypper subcommand (plugin) that can download file lists as needed to search for file contents. As a stretch goal, have a secondary subcommand that can list files in packages regardless of whether they are already installed.

At this point, making the resulting code usable as part of zypper itself is not a goal, as it would probably take more time than available.

Resources

Upstream issue: https://github.com/openSUSE/zypper/issues/469

Stretch goal: https://github.com/openSUSE/zypper/issues/164

Subcommands: https://manpages.opensuse.org/Tumbleweed/zypper/zypper.8.en.html#SUBCOMMANDS