integrated listing mechanism with rpm, listing contents of rpm files.

[sorrillo at jlab.org]

rpm -pql rpm_name

Cheers,

> All,
>
> I'm trying to get a list of files in some binary rpms without
> installing them, located at:
>
>     http://mirrors.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedora/development/i386/os/Packages
>
> For some reason:
>
> rpm2cpio zzuf-0.13-1.fc13.i686.rpm | cpio --list
>
> does not work (it says the created cpio is corrupted, even on the
> newest version of rpm2cpo):
>
> cpio: warning: skipped 5486 bytes of junk
> cpio: warning: archive header has reverse byte-order
> cpio: premature end of file
>
> However, the rpm itself is perfectly fine (rpm -i <file> works).
>
> Hence, it looks like there is a bug in rpm2cpio, most likely because
> it is out of sync with rpm. If you wish to reproduce, you can do so by
> inspecting:
>
> http://mirrors.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedora/development/i386/os/Packages/zzuf-0.13-1.fc13.i686.rpm
>
>
> Anyways, is there a workaround for this? Right now, this is a
> showstopper; I need the list of files out of the package for a rpm
> utility I'm building, and unless I can read an arbitrary rpm and get
> this list, I'm sort of stuck.. So suggestions are welcome..
>
> Ed
>
> (ps - if I had a wish, I really would want this listing functionality
> integrated with rpm itself; not doing so is sort of like having the
> 'tar' utility with the inability to list out a file's contents.. And
> not having it integrated leads to problems like this..)
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