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sameold
Asked: 2012-08-06 11:15:24 +0800 CST

Do .rpm files have metadata

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I have a .rpm file on my windows machine. Is there a way to inspect this file (either on windows or centos) without installing it, to find out where it was compiled from? something like metadata?

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  1. Best Answer

    They have lots of metadata. Use -qp to target the package file and --qf to specify which metadata you're interested in.

    $ rpm -qp /var/cache/yum/x86_64/16/fedora/packages/db4-4.8.30-3.fc15.i686.rpm --qf "%{name}: %{buildhost}\n"
db4: x86-10.phx2.fedoraproject.org

    rpm --querytags will show you the metadata tags.

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  2. To check metadata on windows machine - you will need rpm utility. You can run RPM utility on Windows via Cygwin: http://cygwin.com/ - then from cygwin console you can run rpm -qip /path/file.rpm

    On centos - rpm -qip /path/file.rpm

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  3. I've forked @Ignacio answer and created oneliner to quickly go over all tags:

    rpm -qp package.rpm --qf "$(rpm --querytags | sed -nr 's/(.*)/\1:%{\1}/p' | tr '[:space:]' '\n')"
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