Displaying information on non-installed RPM package?
I googled for this, but couldn't find how to query a non-installed RPM file for its information:
# rpm -qa blackfin-jtag-tools-09r1.1-2.i386.rpm
#
# rpm -qi blackfin-jtag-tools-09r1.1-2.i386.rpm
package blackfin-jtag-tools-09r1.1-2.i386.rpm is not installed
#
# rpm -q blackfin-jtag-tools-09r1.1-2.i386.rpm
package blackfin-jtag-tools-09r1.1-2.i386.rpm is not installed
#
# rpm --info blackfin-jtag-tools-09r1.1-2.i386.rpm
RPM version 4.8.0
Copyright (C) 1998-2002 - Red Hat, Inc.
This program may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL
Usage: rpm [-aKfgpWHqVcdilsKiv?] [-a|--all] [-f|--file] [-g|--group] [-p|--package] [-W|--ftswalk] [--pkgid] [--hdrid] [--fileid]
[--specfile] [--triggeredby] [--whatrequires] [--whatprovides] [--nomanifest] [-c|--configfiles] [-d|--docfiles]
[--dump] [-l|--list] [--queryformat=QUERYFORMAT] [-s|--state] [--nofiledigest] [--nomd5] [--nofiles] [--nodeps]
[...]
Is there a command to read information out of non-installed RPM file?
rpm -qip foo.rpm
@crazyscot did answer the question. Thanks.
Additionally, I found that specific querytags can also be leveraged this way, which wasn't obvious from reading the man page. So, for example, I found I can do the following:
rpm -qp --queryformat '%{ARCH}\n' foo.rpm
or, even:
xyz="ARCH"; rpm -qp --qf %{${xyz}} foo.rpm; echo ""
This works nicely for RPM's that are not installed, and leveraging the available querytags in the installed rpm
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