jbbarnes
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Viewing the contents of an RPM
At times I would like to know what changes an RPM will make to my system ahead of time. I would like to run RPM with the right switches (if they exist) so it will show me what files it will intall and where. Maybe it will put one file in /etc and create a new directory under /usr with five files, and update an existing file in /usr/bin. That's the kind of thing I would like to be able to figure out.
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rpm -Fa package.rpm will freshen the rpm package if you already have installed an older version
rpm -qi will give you info