Re: how to differentiate between binary and source rpm

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

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On Oct 27, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 08:32:58PM +0200, Rohitashva Sharma wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Is there are way to detect whether the given rpm file is source  
> > rpm or
> > binary rpm. One possible way is looking at the filename but what if
> > filename is altered.
>
> From rpm --querytags, I found %{SOURCEPACKAGE}:
> $ rpm -qp --qf '%{name}-%{SOURCEPACKAGE}\n' gpart-0.1h-3.1.src.rpm  
> rpms/RPMS/i386/gpart-0.1h-3.1.i386.rpm
>
> gpart-1
> gpart-(none)

This tag exists, but not in all versions of rpm. Testing non- 
existence of RPMTAG_SOURCERPM
"works" all versions of rpm.

73 de Jeff

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