Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME rpmusage – display rpm packages last use DESCRIPTION rpmusage will display for each package, the last date it was used (in days). It can be used to find unused packages. It use the atime field of all package’s files to do this job. Note : as it scan all files inodes, the run may…
NAME rpmsoname – list files that provide sonames in RPM package(s) SYNOPSIS rpmsoname [-h] [options] [FILE…] [DIR…] DESCRIPTION rpmsoname produces two-column output (typically one line per each soname). Column one contains file path; column two contains corresponding soname. When processing a directory, an additional column is prepended to the output, which is typically RPM file…
NAME rpms2solv – convert one or more rpms into a solv file SYNOPSIS rpms2solv [OPTIONS] RPM1.rpm … DESCRIPTION The rpms2solv tool converts the header data from one or more rpms into the solv file written to standard output. -m MANIFESTFILE Read the rpm file names from the specified MANIFESTFILE. You can use – to read…
NAME rpmrebuild_plugins – is an engine to expand rpmrebuild functionality. SYNOPSIS rpmrebuild [non-plugins-option] [plugins-option] <packagename> DESCRIPTION rpmrebuild itself try to do it’s best to reconstruct rpm package as close to original as possible. rpmrebuild plugins’s aim is opposite – somehow change rebuilded rpm. RPMREBUILD WITHOUT PLUGINS Without plugins process of rpm rebuilding looks like: query…
NAME rpmrebuild – a tool to build an rpm package from an installed package SYNOPSIS rpmrebuild [option] <packagename> DESCRIPTION rpmrebuild is a tool to build easily rpm package. it can be used to build an rpm file from an installed package (lost rpm) or to quickly make change to a package: just have your change…
NAME rpmreaper – A tool for removing unnecessary packages from system SYNOPSIS rpmreaper [-lvh] [-r root] [limit] DESCRIPTION rpmreaper is a simple ncurses application with a mutt-like interface that allows removing unnecessary packages and their dependencies from the system. OPTIONS -l List packages matching limit, or all installed if not specified. -v Verbose listing. -r…
NAME rpmpeek – execute command within RPM contents SYNOPSIS rpmpeek [-n] [-h] RPM command [args…] DESCRIPTION rpmpeek unpacks RPM contents into a temporary directory and executes a command under that directory. The directory is purged upon exit. OPTIONS -n Do not preserve attributes of unpacked files. -h Display the usage and exit. AUTHOR Written by…
NAME rpmorphan – find orphaned packages DESCRIPTION rpmorphan finds “orphaned” packages on your system. It determines which packages have no other packages depending on their installation, and shows you a list of these packages. It is clone of deborphan debian software for rpm packages. It will try to help you to remove unused packages, for…
NAME rpmmd2solv – convert files in rpm-md format into a solv file SYNOPSIS rpmmd2solv [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION The rpmmd2solv tool reads rpm-md xml data from stdin, and writes it as solv file to standard output. It understands the primary, filelist, other, and susedata format. -X Autoexpand SUSE pattern and product provides into packages. SEE ALSO repomdxml2solv(1),…
NAME rpmlint – check common problems in rpm packages SYNOPSIS rpmlint [OPTION]… [FILE|PACKAGE]… DESCRIPTION rpmlint is a tool for checking common errors in rpm packages. It can be used to test individual packages and spec files before uploading or to check an entire distribution. By default all applicable checks are processed but specific checks can…
NAME rpmfile – list file modes and types in RPM packages SYNOPSIS rpmfile [-h] [-a] [-p] [FILE…] [DIR…] DESCRIPTION rpmfile produces three-column output: file name, file mode (octal), and file type, as determined by file(1). When processing a directory, an additional column is prepended to the output, which is typically RPM file basename. OPTIONS -a…
NAME rpmextra – display extra packages : not from distribution repositories DESCRIPTION rpmextra search for extra packages : packages installed on the system that are not available in any repository listed in the config file this packages are often installed manually and are not updated as others packages by distribution tools SYNOPSIS rpmextra [options] options:…
NAME rpmelfsym – list symbols from object files in RPM packages SYNOPSIS rpmelfsym [-h] [-a] [-p] [FILE…] [DIR…] DESCRIPTION rpmelfsym produces three-column output: file name, symbol type, and symbol name, as determined by nm(1). Only dynamically linked executable files and shared libraries are processed, and only dynamic symbols are listed. When processing a directory, an…
NAME rpmduplicates – find program with several version installed DESCRIPTION sometimes, the upgrade of a system will install new packages, and “forget” to remove the older version. Rpmorphan do not work with this kind of unused packages. Rpmduplicates is the answer. I recommend to run it after each distribution upgrade (for example from fedora core…
NAME rpmdev-packager – manual page for rpmdev-packager version 1.1 SYNOPSIS rpmdev-packager [option]… DESCRIPTION rpmdev-packager guesses rpm packager info from various sources: $RPM_PACKAGER from environment (full name + email address) %packager from rpm configuration (full name + email address) /etc/passwd gecos (full name) certificates ~/.fedora.cert (email address) $MAILTO from environment (email address) OPTIONS -h, –help Show…
NAME rpmdev-newspec – manual page for rpmdev-newspec version 2.2 SYNOPSIS rpmdev-newspec [option]… [appname[.spec]] DESCRIPTION rpmdev-newspec generates new rpm .spec files from templates. OPTIONS -o FILE, –output FILE Output the specfile to FILE. "-" means stdout. The default is derived from <appname>, or "newpackage.spec" if <appname> is not given. -t TYPE, –type TYPE Force use of…
NAME rpmdev-newinit – manual page for rpmdev-newinit version 1.1 SYNOPSIS rpmdev-newinit [option]… [appname[.init]] DESCRIPTION rpmdev-newinit generates new init script from a template OPTIONS -o FILE Output the init script to FILE. "-" means stdout. The default is derived from <appname>, or "newinitscript.init" if appname is not given. -h Show this usage message and exit. -v…
NAME rpmdev-extract – manual page for rpmdev-extract version 1.10 SYNOPSIS rpmdev-extract [OPTION]… ARCHIVE… DESCRIPTION rpmdev-extract extracts various archives in "tar xvf" style. Depending on availability of external (un)archiver programs, the following archive types are supported: ace, ar/deb, arj, cab/exe, cpio, lha, rar, rpm, tar, zip/jar, zoo. OPTIONS -q Suppress output. -f Force overwriting existing files….
NAME rpmdev-diff – manual page for rpmdev-diff version 1.4 SYNOPSIS rpmdev-diff [OPTION]… [DIFF-OPTIONS] FROM-ARCHIVE TO-ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION rpmdev-diff diffs contents of two archives. See rpmdev-extract(1) for information about supported archive types. OPTIONS -c, –contents Diff contents of files in archives. This is the default. -l, –list Diff lists of files in archives. -L, –long-list Diff long…
NAME rpmdev-bumpspec – manual page for rpmdev-bumpspec version 1.0.11 SYNOPSIS rpmdev-bumpspec [OPTION]… SPECFILE… DESCRIPTION rpmdev-bumpspec bumps release tags in specfiles. OPTIONS -h, –help show this help message and exit -c COMMENT, –comment=COMMENT changelog comment (default: "- rebuilt") -u USERSTRING, –userstring=USERSTRING user name+email string (default: output from rpmdev-packager(1)) -r, –rightmost bump trailing .<DIGIT> component if found,…