Re: how to differentiate between binary and source rpm

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Oct 27, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Rohitashva Sharma wrote:

> Hi,
> I tried 'file' command and also got good result
>
> > file cdb-soap-auth-cern-nice-1.0.8-1.src.rpm cdb-soap-auth-cern- 
> > nice-1.0.8-1.src.rpm: RPM v3 src i386 cdb-soap-auth-cern-nice-1.0.8-1
>
> > file cdb-soap-auth-cern-nice-1.0.8-1.noarch.rpm
> cdb-soap-auth-cern-nice-1.0.8-1.noarch.rpm: RPM v3 bin i386
> cdb-soap-auth-cern-nice-1.0.8-1

Yep, the file command will work.

Be forewarned, rpm-4.4.8 is in the process of dropping the lead
(which will break your test for a srpm), so I still recommend
testing for the non-existence of RPMTAG_SOURCERPM to
detect a SRPM.

But you probably don't care ;-)

73 de Jeff