Rpm Querying

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 12:47, Satan wrote:
> 
>>Ok ill be a bit more clearer. Im not getting an error message if i did i 
>>would have said. When i use rpm -qpi package i get all the information. 
>>Grand, but it says on every package i tryed that its not installed even 
>>when it is. Whats causing this?
> 
> 
> The -p flag is used to query the PACKAGE_FILE
> [PACKAGE_NAME.version.arch.rpm] file rather than the database of
> installed RPMs.  Use "rpm -qi PACKAGE_NAME" (just the base name - no
> version required) to query the RPM database.  Do "man rpm" and notice
> the distinction between "PACKAGE_NAME" and "PACKAGE_FILE" usage for
> various options.

As a specific example:
[bevan at saladin fedora-1-updates]> ls strace-4.5.1-1.i386.rpm
strace-4.5.1-1.i386.rpm

[bevan at saladin fedora-1-updates]> rpm -qpi strace-4.5.1-1.i386.rpm
Name        : strace                       Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 4.5.1                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 1                             Build Date: Thu 13 Nov 2003 
07:37:23 PM PST
Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: 
porky.devel.redhat.com
[...]

[bevan at saladin fedora-1-updates]> rpm -qi strace-4.5.1-1.i386.rpm
package strace-4.5.1-1.i386.rpm is not installed

[bevan at saladin fedora-1-updates]> rpm -qi strace
Name        : strace                       Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 4.5.1                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 1                             Build Date: Thu 13 Nov 2003 
07:37:23 PM PST
Install Date: Tue 13 Jan 2004 07:45:23 PM PST      Build Host: 
porky.devel.redha