-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 June 2002 07:58 pm, Paul Thomas wrote:
I'll paste from several different mails here... > How do I verify the package is good? I downloaded the distribution > snapshot from ftp://ftp.redhat.com. rpm -K [packagename] will check the md5sum and the gpg sig. Like so: [mfratoni@paradox tmp]$ rpm -K SysVinit-2.78-19.i386.rpm SysVinit-2.78-19.i386.rpm: md5 gpg OK > I found a the latest cpio (GNU cpio version 2.3) but it does not > support the --no-absolute-filenames switch. What version are you using? Just install or upgrade your current version with rpm. I have: [mfratoni@paradox tmp]$ rpm -q cpio cpio-2.4.2-26 Then again, if you are just looking to see what files the package contains, just ask rpm, like so: (you can query an installed package, as well as an uninstalled package, as long as the package.rpm is available.) Installed package query- [mfratoni@paradox tmp]$ rpm -ql logsentry /etc/cron.hourly/logsentry /etc/logsentry/hacking [snip details for brevity] /usr/share/doc/logsentry-1.1.1/README.linux.IMPORTANT /var/logsentry Query an un installed package file: [mfratoni@paradox tmp]$ rpm -qlp SysVinit-2.78-19.i386.rpm /dev/initctl /sbin/halt /sbin/init [snip details for brevity] /usr/share/man/man8/sulogin.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/telinit.8.gz > Gee, I dunno. The CD I bought died in the jewlbox, hasn't a scratch on > it. Had to download a copy off ftp.redhat.com....took about 16hours or > so and there was little or no reference to that ftp site on their > website...took me a couple days to find it. Hrmm, to be fair, there is a "download" link at the top right of http://redhat.com/ as well as every other page on the site. :) If you are trying to do a large download, you'll usually have far better luck with one of the mirrors. http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html > Also,I'm in a high > bandwidth colo facility. After that, trying to find the packages that > contain the binaries and init scripts I need is turning into a guessing > game. And I have to deal with all this rpm stuff. What a headache. I > don't think I'll be buying anymore Red Hat distros. I'm not sure what you are trying to do, so if this isn't the info your looking for, ignore me. If you install the rpmdb-redhat package for the version you are trying to find details for, there is a lot of info available. You can query the database for the name of the package that provides a certain file, for example. The format of the comand is: 'rpm -q --redhatprovides [query name]' Like so: [mfratoni@paradox tmp]$ rpm -q --redhatprovides /usr/lib/libcrypt.so glibc-devel-2.2.5-34 [mfratoni@paradox tmp]$ rpm -q --redhatprovides libcrypto.so.2 openssl-0.9.6b-18 > Even when I purchased the one I had, the sales 'engineers' or whatever > they call themselves didn't know anything more about the product than > was on the box. I stopped at their booth at a Linux World, same > thing. I've never had to call Red Hat support, so no comment there. I do know that those Red Hat employees (some of them from support) who take the time to post and help out on the mailing lists are generally quite helpful and knowledgeable. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.2 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj0H71cACgkQn/07WoAb/St1vgCfXs8nuc/RokqecexGTOdIHu4I NG0AnjD8EWuQD2p4xaX/f+FcisaYPJYF =UaAS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
