[blag-whereto] what's the command for that?

[john maclean]

2009/4/13 r7 <r7 at aktivix.org>:
> john maclean wrote:
>
>> Sorry please expand on the question. What do you mean by "the command
>> that gives the output"?
>
> sorry, i probably didn't explain myself very well. the page in question:
>
> https://blag.wiki.aktivix.org/Parted
>
> contains package information from the parted package that appeared in
> the 30k series of blag.
>
> my original question is what command gives that output, but i'd like to
> broaden it in light some of the answers i've received both here on the
> list and in #blag.
>
>  renilgh suggested: rpm -qi parted
>  esp and others suggested: apt-cache show parted
>  and my own playing around revealed: yum info parted
>
> so which do we want? if we're going to update a bunch of pages like
> this, it makes sense to decide before we start. following are the three
> outputs for comparison purposes [with my short comments after each one]:
>
>  [r7 at box blag]$ rpm -qi parted
>  Name        : parted                       Relocations: (not
>                                             relocatable)
>  Version     : 1.8.8                        Vendor: Fedora Project
>  Release     : 5.fc9                        Build Date: Thu 10 Apr
>                                             2008 22:46:28 CEST
>  Install Date: Mon 09 Jun 2008 01:38:13 CEST
>  Build Host:   xenbuilder4.fedora.phx.redhat.com
>  Group       : Applications/System          Source RPM:
>                                             parted-1.8.8-5.fc9.src.rpm
>  Size        : 1702291                      License: GPLv3+
>  Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Mon 14 Apr 2008 16:33:57 CEST, Key ID
>    b44269d04f2a6fd2
>  Packager    : Fedora Project
>  URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/parted
>  Summary     : The GNU disk partition manipulation program
>  Description :
>  The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy, resize, move,
>  and copy hard disk partitions. Parted can be used for creating space
>  for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data
>  to new hard disks.
>
> this is obviously the answer to my question...
>
>  [r7 at box blag]$ apt-cache show parted
>  Package: parted
>  Section: Applications/System
>  Installed Size: 1702291
>  Packager: Fedora Project
>  Version: 1.8.8-5.fc9
>  Pre-Depends: /bin/sh, /bin/sh, /sbin/install-info, /sbin/install-info,
>               /sbin/ldconfig, /sbin/ldconfig, /sbin/ldconfig
>  Depends: libc.so.6, libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1),
>           libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2),
>           libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4),
>           libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.7),
>           libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.8), libdevmapper.so.1.02,
>           libdevmapper.so.1.02(Base), libdl.so.2,
>           libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0), libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1),
>           libparted-1.8.so.8, libreadline.so.5, libselinux.so.1,
>           libsepol.so.1, libtinfo.so.5, libuuid.so.1, rtld(GNU_HASH)
>  Provides: libparted-1.8.so.8, parted = 1.8.8-5.fc9
>  Architecture: i386
>  Size: 671857
>  MD5Sum: 9f225922f81842b86f11ef25f8d3e1b4
>  Filename: parted-1.8.8-5.fc9.i386.rpm
>  Summary: The GNU disk partition manipulation program
>  Description:
>   The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy, resize, move,
>   and copy hard disk partitions. Parted can be used for creating space
>   for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data
>   to new hard disks.
>
> handy that it provides Pre-depends, Depends and Provides additional
> information. *but* should we be using apt-cache if we're not using
> apt-get as our updater?
>
>  [r7 at box blag]$ yum info parted
>  Name       : parted
>  Arch       : i386
>  Version    : 1.8.8
>  Release    : 5.fc9
>  Size       : 1.6 M
>  Repo       : installed
>  Summary    : The GNU disk partition manipulation program
>  URL        : http://www.gnu.org/software/parted
>  License    : GPLv3+
>  Description: The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy,
>             : resize, move, and copy hard disk partitions. Parted
>             : can be used for creating space for new operating systems,
>             : reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard
>             : disks.
>
> most concise and with the advantage that it's based on yum which we use.
>
> comments are welcome. i think my preference is for the rpm -qi option.
>
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There are also `rpm --query --docfiles`  and `rpm --query --list`.


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