Re: What happened to rpmcontents.gz?

[Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Kenneth Corbin wrote:
> The RedHat 4.3 release included a file which listed the contents of
> every RPM on the CD.  I found this to be incredibly useful and am
> somewhat dismayed to find that it isn't in the 5.0 release.  I presume
> that there is some other way this information can be generated and
> reviewed but have no idea what it might be.

mount /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
rpm -qip *.rpm >/tmp/rpmcontents.gz

You can alternately do 'rpm -qilp *.rpm' which will also list the files
within each RPM.

Try: 
  man rpm

Lots of good stuff there.
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