Provides search suggests wildcard prefix ("*/") annoyingly that's exactly what you've done.

[jboero]

It's really not a technical issue but an annoyance for a few years now. DNF suggests using wildcards when nothing comes back for a provides search using wildcards..

$  sudo dnf provides '*/purplemonkeydishwasher'
Last metadata expiration check: 1:31:30 ago on Mon 11 Mar 2024 12:53:42 PM GMT.
Error: No matches found. If searching for a file, try specifying the full path or using a wildcard prefix ("*/") at the beginning.

Thank you happy helper! Why didn't I think of that? :)
I'll try to whip up a PR to fix this.

[jboero]

dnf/dnf/cli/cli.py

Line 603 in 96f8d79

if not matches:

[jboero]

#2064