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?

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 05 '12 at 19:19

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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.

answered Aug 05 '12 at 19:19

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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Any way to do that on a Windows machine (just out of curiosity)? – Mark Henderson Aug 05 '12 at 20:30
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@Mark: There's [this](http://sourceforge.net/projects/rpmwin32/), but I doubt it supports the new hash format. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Aug 05 '12 at 20:34

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 06 '12 at 07:46

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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

answered Aug 06 '12 at 07:46

GioMac

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This displays all of the metadata - just what I was looking for. – sourcedelica Mar 20 '20 at 18:12

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 18 '18 at 12:50

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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')"

answered Jun 18 '18 at 12:50

alkuzad

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Do .rpm files have metadata

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