Re: [expert] getting RPM headers

2003-02-04 Thread James Sparenberg
Sorry if you get this as a dupe but after about 14 hours... it hasn't appeared. 

Got a wild hair up my other side and tried this.

# rpm -qip
http://mandrake.secsup.org/Mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/Apache-ASP-2.37-3mdk.noarch.rpm

(this is all one line but my line wrap messed it up.) And it worked!.
Note that this is a 9.0 rpm and I typed it into an 8.0 box so there is
no way it read it locally.


if you do rpm -qpl and then the http link you get all the files that
that package will install.

James



On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 20:54, Philip Webb wrote:
> can anyone tell me how to read the headers of the RPMs in Cooker & Contrib
> without having to download the RPMs themselves & read them locally?
> otherwise, how can you tell what the various programs are useful for?
> 
> if i do have a local RPM, but it's not in the URPMI database,
> is there any way to read its header ( 'urpmq --header' doesn't help)?
> 
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Re: [expert] getting RPM headers

2003-02-04 Thread Larry Sword
Philip Webb wrote:


can anyone tell me how to read the headers of the RPMs in Cooker & Contrib
without having to download the RPMs themselves & read them locally?
otherwise, how can you tell what the various programs are useful for?


Not sure how to read these on none local database.



if i do have a local RPM, but it's not in the URPMI database,
is there any way to read its header ( 'urpmq --header' doesn't help)?



On local rpms try this: rpm -qp --info 


Larry




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[expert] getting RPM headers

2003-02-03 Thread Philip Webb
can anyone tell me how to read the headers of the RPMs in Cooker & Contrib
without having to download the RPMs themselves & read them locally?
otherwise, how can you tell what the various programs are useful for?

if i do have a local RPM, but it's not in the URPMI database,
is there any way to read its header ( 'urpmq --header' doesn't help)?

-- 
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SUPPORT ___//___,  Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ELECTRIC   /] [] [] [] [] []|  Centre for Urban & Community Studies
TRANSIT`-O--O---'  University of Toronto


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