I apologize for poorly wording the question. I was just looking for a way to list the rpm files in a Fedora ISO. The rpm2cpio command was something I had found could be used to extract particular files, not to get a list of all the rpms that would be installed if I installed a Live CD. Thanks for all the help! Best wishes, Ranjan On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:01:20 -0500 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:35:33 -0700, CW (Craig) wrote: > > > > While the Live iso is booted: > > > > > > rpm -qa > > > > > > should list the installed RPMs > > > > ---- > > OK but I can't figure out how that is going to be helpful to someone who > > wants to use rpm2cpio in order to extract files from rpm files that > > don't actually exist on the live cd. That was the OP's intent/question. > > Really? Then the post is phrased poorly: > > | I have been trying to determine what are the packages in a live iso file? > | How do i do this? > > This has been answered. > > | i could find instructions on how to use rpm2cpio to extract a rpm file > | that i know is in the iso, [...] > > This is not a question. > > | [...] but i am looking here to obtain a list of the rpms. > > This has been answered. With the list of packages and a package's > name, one can query the RPM database also to retrieve the package's > list of files in case that is needed as well. > > -- > Fedora release 16 (Verne) - Linux 3.1.0-0.rc4.git0.0.fc16.x86_64 > loadavg: 0.03 0.04 0.05 > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
