[lug] need a way to compare capabilities of arbitrarily different rpm-based distributions

[qqq1one @yahoo.com]

Hey that works nice.  Thanks.  I combined it with find to get every
package on a CD like so:

    find /mnt/cdrom -name "*.rpm" | xargs rpm -qp --qf '%{name}\n'

--- Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> wrote:
> How about, for every package in your distribution, doing:
> 
>    rpm -qp --qf '%{name}\n' "$RPMFILE"
> 
> For example:
> 
>    guin:jafo$ rpm -qp --qf '%{name}\n'
> /tmp/python-imaging-devel-1.0-6.i386.rpm
>    python-imaging-devel
> 
> So, from that you can get the name and only the name.  See the
> "queryformat" section of the RPM man page for more information.
> 
> Sean

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