Re: how to differentiate between binary and source rpm

["Rohitashva Sharma" <rs1975in gmail com>]

Hi Jeff,

I will go according to your recommendation. please tell me how to test
for non-existence of tag RPMTAG_SOURCERPM in any rpm.

thanks and regards
Sharma

On 10/28/06, Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com> wrote:
> 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
>
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