whichprovides

Package manager agnostic support for "yum whichprovides" which maps a file back to its providing package. This is useful for generating a package URL (PURL) identifier.

You can install the package from PyPI like so:

$ python -m pip install whichprovides

You can also "splat" the module into your own projects:

$ git clone https://codeberg.org/sethmlarson/whichprovides
$ cp whichprovides/src/whichprovides/__init__.py ./whichprovides.py

Then use the whichprovides() API inside of Python code:

>>> import whichprovides
>>> whichprovides.whichprovides("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl3.so")

ProvidedBy(
  package_type='deb',
  distro='ubuntu',
  package_name='libnss3',
  package_version='2:3.98-0ubuntu0.22.04.2'
)

The functionality is also accessible from the command line:

$ python -m pip install whichprovides
$ python -m whichprovides /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl3.so 

pkg:deb/ubuntu/libnss3@2:3.98-0ubuntu0.22.04.2