How to do QA

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 02:51:02 -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote:

> > Be sure to use -qplv, so you get to see file permissions, ownerships and
> > sizes.
> 
> Except dates and times will always change, so the case without -v is
> nice to see too, so you only see missing/new files/paths in the diff 
> output.
> 
> This might be a nice alternative, for comparing everything but the
> timestamps and file sizes of the binary rpms:
> 
> rpm -qplv file.rpm | awk '{print $1,$2,$3,$4,$8,$9}'

Of course. I have a similar one in my .bashrc for ages, which keeps -p
optional, uses printf for improved readability and. Only minor
differences. And a non-verbose version:

$ rpmls m4
-rwxr-xr-x  /usr/bin/m4
drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.1
-rw-r--r--  /usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.1/NEWS
-rw-r--r--  /usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.1/README
-rw-r--r--  /usr/share/info/m4.info-1.gz
-rw-r--r--  /usr/share/info/m4.info-2.gz
-rw-r--r--  /usr/share/info/m4.info-3.gz
-rw-r--r--  /usr/share/info/m4.info.gz
-rw-r--r--  /usr/share/locale/fr/m4.msg

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