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. ---- I will defer to your greater knowledge of these things... Craig
