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Re: I don't want to get obnoxious, but ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Sun Oct 27 23:42:41 1996
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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 23:41:13 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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>> > ... but the very useful feature "site exec rpm -qip ..." doesn't work for
>> > a few weeks now .... :-(
>>
>> What does it do?
>
> when you connect to ftp.redhat.com via an FTP tool, you can type in
>"site exec rpm -qip some_unknown_package-1.2.3-4.XXX.rpm" and it will
>(should anyway) list you what the package is about.
>
> tells you what is the description / listing / contents of the package,
>so you can decide whether you want to spend the resources to download it
>or not.
We're working on fixing it, but I can't promise anything. For
security, we were using a hacked RPM that could only do queries.
We've since upgraded things and that binary won't work on newer
packages, so...
--Donnie
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