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Re: I don't want to get obnoxious, but ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Mon Oct 28 12:36:31 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Oct 1996 04:25:37 EST."
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:00:25 -0500
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Jan Vicherek writes:
> ... but the very useful feature "site exec rpm -qip ..." doesn't work for
>a few weeks now .... :-(
While we are working on that, there's now another option: rpm has
query-over-ftp support; it only downloads the header if you are
querying, so it is quite quick. This *requires* that you have rpm
version 2.2.7 installed, but it's worth the upgrade (just run
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/code/redhat/rpm/rpm-2.2.7-1.i386.rpm
to upgrade to the latest...).
For example:
$ rpm -qip ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/i386/ghostscript-fonts-4.0-2.i386.rpm
Name : ghostscript-fonts Distribution: Red Hat Linux Colgate
Version : 4.0 Vendor: Red Hat Software
Release : 2 Build Date: Wed Oct 02 10:38:28 1996
Install date: (none) Build Host: porky.redhat.com
Group : Applications/Graphics Source RPM: ghostscript-fonts-4.0-2.src.rpm
Size : 2241125
Summary : Fonts for the GhostScript interpreter
Description :
These fonts can be used by the GhostScript interpreter during text
rendering.
michaelkjohnson
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