[svlug] about RPM

[Vince Duperron]

Todd;

[vince at thingfish vince]# ls -l /var/lib/rpm
total 10924
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        24576 Mar  8 20:10 Basenames
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        24576 Mar  8 20:10 Conflictname
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        24576 Mar  8 20:10 Name
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        24576 Feb 10 14:40 Packages
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        24576 Mar  8 20:10 Providename
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        16384 Mar  5 18:49 conflictsindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      2617344 Mar  5 18:49 fileindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        16384 Mar  5 18:49 groupindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        24576 Mar  5 18:49 nameindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      8745288 Mar  5 18:49 packages.rpm
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        49152 Mar  5 18:49 providesindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        98304 Mar  5 18:49 requiredby.rpm
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        16384 Mar  5 18:49 triggerindex.rpm

Is there any way to read some of these files?  They seem to be a little
tough to read.

[vince at thingfish vince]# file /var/lib/rpm/*
/var/lib/rpm/Basenames:          data
/var/lib/rpm/Conflictname:       data
/var/lib/rpm/Name:               data
/var/lib/rpm/Packages:           data
/var/lib/rpm/Providename:        data
/var/lib/rpm/conflictsindex.rpm: Berkeley DB Hash file (Version 2, Big Endian, Bucket Size 4096, Bucket Shift 12, Directory Size 256, Segment Size 256, Segment Shift 8, Overflow Point 1, Last Freed 2, Max Bucket 1, High Mask 0x3, Low Mask 0x1, Fill Factor 65536, Number of Keys 7)
/var/lib/rpm/fileindex.rpm:      Berkeley DB ....

[vince at thingfish vince]# less /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm 
"/var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm" may be a binary file.  See it anyway? 

[vince at thingfish vince]# less /var/lib/rpm/Packages 
"/var/lib/rpm/Packages" may be a binary file.  See it anyway? 



Thanks for the help.

Vince

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