Re: [Libguestfs] Rethinking appliance building
On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 04:28:39PM -0700, Thomas S Hatch wrote:
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones(a)redhat.com>wrote:
> > (4) Must be able to list out the files in a downloaded package.
>
> RPM: rpm -qlp foo.rpm
> Debian: dpkg-deb -c foo.deb
>
pacman -Qlp foo.pkg.tar.xz
RPM stores per-file metadata: basically if each file is a config file,
documentation and a few other things. Is this available in pacman?
For Debian we have to synthesize this (eg. everything in /etc is
marked as a config file). It is not very satisfactory.
Rich.
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