Rpm
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Links
- rpm.org The RPM Homepage]
- Maximum RPM -- Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit
- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch04s04.html
building RPMs
When you want to build rpm's make sure you ~/.rpmmacros file is more or less sane:
Example
%packager J Doe <johndoe@example.tv>
%vendor HomeMade
%_topdir /home/jdoe/rpmbuild
%_tmppath /home/jdoe/rpmbuild/tmp
%debug_package %{nil}
And the correct directories have to exist:
${HOME}/rpmbuild/
${HOME}/rpmbuild/RPMS
${HOME}/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686
${HOME}/rpmbuild/RPMS/i586
${HOME}/rpmbuild/RPMS/athlon
${HOME}/rpmbuild/RPMS/i486
${HOME}/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386
${HOME}/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch
${HOME}/rpmbuild/tmp
${HOME}/rpmbuild/BUILD
${HOME}/rpmbuild/SPECS
${HOME}/rpmbuild/SRPMS
${HOME}/rpmbuild/SOURCES
FAQ
List installed packages names only
rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}\n"
Extract files from rpm file
rpm2cpio file.rpm | cpio -idmv
List files in package
rpm -ql packagename
What packages depend on this one?
rpm -q --whatrequires packagename
What dependencies does this package have?
yum deplist packagename
get the total size used by rpm packages:
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{SIZE}\n" | awk '{arg += $1} END{ printf "%d Mb\n", arg / 1048576 }'
verify all the installed packages
rpm -Va
what package does (e.g.) the nslookup command belong to?
rpm -qf `which nslookup`
