On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 13:54 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Is there a convenient way to read a .hdr file? Let's call it headump. > The output of "headump foo.hdr" should be similar to the output of > "rpm -qilp foo.rpm"; it would show what the foo.rpm does and what files > it provides. > > The reason -- I'd like to build a database of the contents of the > contents of what's available form the rpm extras server. It's not > always obvious from the name of the rpm what it does or what files it > provides. I'd have thought it would have been easier to handle the XML metadata in the repodata/ directory. The headers files are deprecated anyway and may go away before much longer as yum 2.1.x doesn't use them. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
