rpm question

[Masaki Birchmier]

Have 2 question,

How do you list the content of a rpm package BEFORE it's installed?
rpm -ql only works on installed rpm's

I'm trying to install compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.16.i386.rpm, but it has a dependency compat-glibc-6.2, but compat-glibc-7.3 is already installed. Is it OK to install multiple versions of glibc? That's why I was trying to get a list of packages within the rpm so I can see where it would install.

Thanks,
Masaki

[Steven E. Protter]

from the man page

install-options
[--aid] [--allfiles] [--badreloc] [--excludepath OLDPATH]
[--excludedocs] [--force] [-h,--hash]
[--ignoresize] [--ignorearch] [--ignoreos]
[--includedocs] [--justdb] [--nodeps]
[--nodigest] [--nosignature] [--nosuggest]
[--noorder] [--noscripts] [--notriggers]
[--oldpackage] [--percent] [--prefix NEWPATH]
[--relocate OLDPATH=NEWPATH]
[--repackage] [--replacefiles] [--replacepkgs]
[--test]


Try the --test option with the -vv option.

It might give you what you need.

SEP

[Alex Lavrov.]

In man page refer to this option:

-p
Query an (uninstalled) package . The
may be specified as an ftp or http
style URL, in which case the package header will be
downloaded and queried. See FTP/HTTP OPTIONS for
information on RPM's built-in ftp and http client
support.

[Alex Lavrov.]

Sorry, hit "submit" without answering the second question.

It won't let you have two different verions of rpms. You should resolve all the dependencies while installing and I'm afraid that you'll have to downgrade glibc vecause the rpm you're trying to install is old and there are no newer versions of it.

Like it says on rpmfind.net:
"This package includes a compiler that can be to generate binaries that will run on older Red Hat Linux systems (namely Red Hat Linux 6.2)"

[Stuart Browne]

Before it's installed, you want 'rmp -qlp '.

The '-p' means 'query package file', as against 'query installed database'.

[Gopi Sekar · Accepted solution]

1. you can use -p option to query a rpm file for its contents before it gets installed.
eg: rpm -qpil
it will list package information(name, version,arch etc and list of files available under that rpm). you can pipe this output to less command if it goes beyond a page output

2. i believe you are trying to egcs libraries of RH 6.2 version in to RH 7.3
unless you have absolute requirement to do this, dont do this. Better install compat-egcs for RH 7.3(you can download them from RH website or rpmfind.net)

if you really want to use only this version then you can try installing the rpm with --nodeps which means it will install the rpm without dependency check. eg: rpm --nodeps -ivh compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.16.i386.rpm

But there is no guarantee that the installed RPM will work fine. At the same time if you downgrade the version of compat-glibc in your system then existing package which depends on this library will not run.

You call for it,
Gopi