About rpm --querytags option

[Robert Wuest]

This brings to mind a problem I had to deal with not too long ago.

How does one find the spec file a package is built from?

Is there a more reliable / faster way than something like this?

rpm -qlp package.src.rpm | egrep '\.spec$'

Robert

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On 07/01/2008, jeanpca at free.fr <jeanpca at free.fr> wrote:
>>
>>    Hello
>>
>>    I use the rpm command to manipulate rpm file and to identify them,
>>  by name, by version, by release, by arch..
>>
>>    I am in trouble with the tags SOURCE and SOURCERPM wich are listed
>>  by the rpm command when I type : rpm --querytags
>>
>>    I read
>> http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-queryformat-tags.html  but
>>  didn't find answer to my question :
>>
>>    when I type:  rpm -qp --qf "%{source}\n"
>>  /tmp/my_binary_rpm.i386.rpm
>>
>>    I can see : (none)
>
> The query is bad. %{source} is an array and holds the values of the
> src.rpm spec file's primary SourceX tags. Use query "[%{source} ]"
> instead to retrieve all values.
>
>>    and when I type : rpm -qp --qf "%{sourcerpm}\n"
>>  /tmp/my_binary_rpm.i386.rpm
>>
>>    I can see the name of the source which has been used to produce
>>  this binary rpm
>>
>>    so when I see "(none)", is it sufficient to say that the rpm file
>>  is a binary rpm ?
>
> I don't understand why you want to mix the two values. A binary rpm
> that was built from a source rpm returns a value in %{sourcerpm}. A
> source rpm returns "(none)" in %{sourcerpm} because it is built from a
> spec file, not from a src.rpm.
>
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