On Tuesday 05 December 2006 12:12, Craig White wrote:
> 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.
>
> ----
> 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
>
Thanks, Craig. You're absolutely right. The man page is so long that I must
have been bog-eyed by the time I got down there :-)
Anne
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