On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 4:06 PM José Abílio Matos <jama...@fc.up.pt> wrote:
>
> On Saturday, 1 June 2019 20.29.33 WEST Georg Sauthoff wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 11:28:37AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > > On 6/1/19 10:40 AM, Georg Sauthoff wrote:
> > > > $ mkdir -p o ; rpm2cpio dpm-copy-server-mysql-1.12.0-2.fc29.x86_64.rpm |
> > > > cpio -di -D o -v>
> > > Why are you going through cpio, instead of just using rpm itself?
> >
> > because I want to read the man-page without installing the package.
>
> Probably I am missing something obvious but what is wrong with
>
> rpm -qpl dpm-copy-server-mysql-1.12.0-2.fc29.x86_64.rpm
> ?
>
> -q query
> -p package
> -l list files

He wants to *read* the man page, not merely know that it exists. No
idea why it might be a ghost file? But in the meantime, install it in
a "mock" setup or a VM to read it or install it and then unstall it,
if you're in a rush.
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