Red Hat and Debian GNU/Linux Package Managers
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Miscellaneous options
Several additional rpm options are available:
- --querytags
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Print the tags available for use with the --queryformat option in query mode.
- --setgids packages
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Set file owner and group of the specified packages to those in the database.
- --setperms packages
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Set file permissions of the specified packages to those in the database.
- --showrc
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Show the values rpm will use for all options that can be set in an .rpmrc file.
FTP/HTTP options
The following options are available for use with ftp:// and http:// URLs in install, update, and query modes:
- --ftpport port
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Use port for making an FTP connection on the proxy FTP server instead of the default port. Same as specifying the macro _ftpport.
- --ftpproxy host
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Use host as the proxy server for FTP transfers through a firewall that uses a proxy. Same as specifying the macro _ftpproxy.
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Use port for making an HTTP connection on the proxy HTTP server instead of the default port. Same as specifying the macro _httpport.
- --httpproxy host
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Use host as a proxy server for HTTP transfers. Same as specifying the macro _httpproxy.
Build options
The syntax for the build options is:
Specify -b to build a package directly from a spec file or -t to open a tarred gzipped file and use its spec file. Both forms take the following single-character step arguments:rpm -[b|t]step [build-options] spec-file ...
- p
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Perform the prep stage, unpacking source files and applying patches.
- l
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Do a list check, expanding macros in the files section of the spec file and verifying that each file exists.
- c
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Perform the build stage. Done after the prep stage; generally equivalent to doing a make.
- i
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Perform the install stage. Done after the prep and build stages; generally equivalent to doing a make install.
- b
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Build a binary package. Done after prep, build, and install.
- s
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Build a source package. Done after prep, build, and install.
- a
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Build both binary and source packages. Done after prep, build, and install.
The following additional options can be used when building an rpm file:
- --buildarch arch
- --buildos os
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For use with pre-3.0 versions of RPM. Build the package for architecture arch or the operating system os. Replaced in 3.0 with --target.
- --buildroot dir
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Override the BuildRoot tag with dir when building the package.
- --clean
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Clean up (remove) the build files after the package has been made.
- --rmsource
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Remove the source files and the spec file when the build is done. Can be used as a standalone option with rpm to clean up files separately from creating the packages.
- --short-circuit
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Can be used with -bc and -bi to skip previous stages.
- --sign
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Add a PGP signature to the package.
- --target platform
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When building the package, set the macros _target, _target_arch, and _target_os to the value indicated by platform.
- --test
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Go through the motions, but don't execute any build stages. Used for testing spec files.
- --timecheck
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Set the timecheck age (the maximum age in seconds of a file being packaged). Set to 0 to disable.
Two other options can be used standalone with rpm to recompile or rebuild a package:
- --rebuild source-pkgfile...
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Like --recompile, but also build a new binary package. Remove the build directory, the source files, and the spec file once the build is complete.
- --recompile source-pkgfile...
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Install the named source package, and prep, compile, and install the package.
RPM examples
Query the RPM database to find Emacs-related packages:
%rpm -q -a | grep emacs
Query an uninstalled package, printing information about the package, and list the files it contains:
%rpm -qpil ~/downloads/bash2-doc-2.03-8.i386.rpm
Install a package (assumes superuser privileges):
%rpm -i sudo-1.5.3-6.i386.rpm
