Package management
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list package content
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Overly simplified RPM’s are compressed cpio files with a bit of meta data. Consider the following:

# rpm -qlp zip-3.0-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
/usr/bin/zip
/usr/bin/zipcloak
/usr/bin/zipnote
/usr/bin/zipsplit
/usr/share/doc/zip-3.0
/usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/README
/usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/README.CR
/usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/TODO
/usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/WHATSNEW
/usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/WHERE
/usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/algorith.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/zip.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zipcloak.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zipnote.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zipsplit.1.gz

Vs:

# rpm2cpio zip-3.0-11.el7.x86_64.rpm | cpio -t
./usr/bin/zip
./usr/bin/zipcloak
./usr/bin/zipnote
./usr/bin/zipsplit
./usr/share/doc/zip-3.0
./usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/CHANGES
./usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/LICENSE
./usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/README
./usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/README.CR
./usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/TODO
./usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/WHATSNEW
./usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/WHERE
./usr/share/doc/zip-3.0/algorith.txt
./usr/share/man/man1/zip.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/zipcloak.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/zipnote.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/zipsplit.1.gz
1598 blocks

Building
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show rpm configuration
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rpm --showrc

rpm --showrc|grep mkdir_p
-14: __mkdir_p  /usr/bin/mkdir -p
%{__mkdir_p} %{perl_br_testdir}

rpm - This article is part of a series.

Part 1: RPM

Part 2: Investigate RPM's

Part 3: Building RPM's

Part 4: This Article

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Package management
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list package content
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Building
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show rpm configuration
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