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Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Dec 5 17:51:32 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 05 December 2006 12:12, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 11:36 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 04 December 2006 20:59, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > Yup.  Craig mentioned the man file.  I'd already been there, but V
> > > doesn't seem to be listed as an option.  I'm still trying to understand
> > > the vast number of rpm commands people recommend.  Sometimes it's easy
> > > from the man page, sometimes less obvious.
> >
> > To amplify - I saw -v as an option, but not -V.
>
> ----
> from FC-5 (man rpm)
>
>  VERIFY OPTIONS
>      The general form of an rpm verify command is
>
>      rpm {-V|--verify} [select-options] [verify-options]
>
>      Verifying  a  package  compares  information  about the installed
> files in the package with information about the files taken from the
> package metadata stored in the rpm database.  Among other things,
> verifying compares the size, MD5 sum, permissions, type, owner  and
> group  of  each file.   Any discrepancies are displayed.  Files that
> were not installed from the package, for example, documentation files
> excluded on installation using the "--excludedocs" option, will be
> silently ignored.
>
> and continues on from there
>
Thanks, Craig.  You're absolutely right.  The man page is so long that I must 
have been bog-eyed by the time I got down there :-)

Anne
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