On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 11:36 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 04 December 2006 20:59, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >
> > Yup. Craig mentioned the man file. I'd already been there, but V doesn't
> > seem to be listed as an option. I'm still trying to understand the vast
> > number of rpm commands people recommend. Sometimes it's easy from the man
> > page, sometimes less obvious.
> >
> To amplify - I saw -v as an option, but not -V.
>
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from FC-5 (man rpm)
VERIFY OPTIONS
The general form of an rpm verify command is
rpm {-V|--verify} [select-options] [verify-options]
Verifying a package compares information about the installed
files in the package with information about the files taken from the
package metadata stored in the rpm database. Among other things,
verifying compares the size, MD5 sum, permissions, type, owner and
group of each file. Any discrepancies are displayed. Files that
were not installed from the package, for example, documentation files
excluded on installation using the "--excludedocs" option, will be
silently ignored.
and continues on from there
Craig
