Which files are provided by this rpm ?

[Paul Howarth]

Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 19:01 +0200, Losito Nicola wrote:
>> Il giorno lun, 12/06/2006 alle 09.51 -0700, Peter Gordon ha scritto:
>>> Yum is the wrong tool for this. Use RPM directly. :)
>> so long for a package management tool then :D
>>
>>> $ rpm -qpl /path/to/foo-version.arch.rpm
>> So i still have to actually download the package .... thanks anyway
>> people !
> ----
> No - actually don't have to download the package...that was what Peter
> was telling you.
> 
> rpm -qpl \
> http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/fedora/linux/core/5/i386//os/Fedora/RPMS/vsftpd-2.0.4-1.2.i386.rpm

Hmm. Doesn't this just download the package, give you a list if its 
contents, and then delete the package?

If it was likely you'd want to install this package after checking that 
it contained what you wanted, I'd have thought it would be better to 
download it first and run the rpm query against the local file so it 
would stick around. Particularly for a large package that would take a 
while to download.

Paul.