Re: Which files are provided by this rpm ?

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On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 18:44 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 19:01 +0200, Losito Nicola wrote:
> >> Il giorno lun, 12/06/2006 alle 09.51 -0700, Peter Gordon ha scritto:
> >>> Yum is the wrong tool for this. Use RPM directly. :)
> >> so long for a package management tool then :D
> >>
> >>> $ rpm -qpl /path/to/foo-version.arch.rpm
> >> So i still have to actually download the package .... thanks anyway
> >> people !
> > ----
> > No - actually don't have to download the package...that was what Peter
> > was telling you.
> > 
> > rpm -qpl \
> > http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/fedora/linux/core/5/i386//os/Fedora/RPMS/vsftpd-2.0.4-1.2.i386.rpm
> 
> Hmm. Doesn't this just download the package, give you a list if its 
> contents, and then delete the package?
> 
> If it was likely you'd want to install this package after checking that 
> it contained what you wanted, I'd have thought it would be better to 
> download it first and run the rpm query against the local file so it 
> would stick around. Particularly for a large package that would take a 
> while to download.
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I will defer to your greater knowledge of these things...

Craig


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