RpmShellNotes - Naked Ape Wiki

1. RPM Shell Notes

Listed here are a few shell scripts to make certain RPM features more accessible. This could probably be done with popt, but I haven't invested the time in learning it.

1.0.1. rpmwhich

I found myself repeated using rpm -qf `which foo` to find the package owning /usr/bin/foo (or other places in my $PATH). So I wrote a little function to make it easier. It is a shell function so put this in your ~/.bashrc:

function rpmwhich {
    for f in $*; do
        ff=$(which $f 2>/dev/null)
        if [ -n "$ff" ]; then
            printf "%s: " $ff
            rpm -qf $ff
        else
           printf "'%s' not found!\n" $f
        fi
    done
}

1.0.2. rpmrm

Remove source and spec files with fewer keystrokes. Shell alias; add to ~/.bashrc:

alias rpmrm='rpmbuild --rmsource --rmspec '

1.0.3. getspec

Extract the .spec file from a source RPM.

function getspec { rpm2cpio $1 | cpio -div '*.spec' }

1.0.4. getsrc

Extract the main source from a source RPM.

function getsrc { rpm2cpio $1 | cpio -div '*.tar.gz' }

1.0.5. getpatches

Extract patches from a source RPM.

function getpatches { rpm2cpio $1 | cpio -div '*.patch' }

1.0.6. rpmdump

Extract the contents of a source or binary RPM.

function rpmdump { rpm2cpio $1 | (mkdir ${1%.rpm} && cd ${1%.rpm} && cpio -div) }