Displaying information on non-installed RPM package?

Question

I googled for this, but couldn\'t find how to query a non-installed RPM file for its information:

# rpm -qa blackfin-jtag-tools-09r1.1-2.i386.rpm
# 
# rpm -qi bl         


        

Answer 1

Use rpm -qip:

rpm -qip package_path1 [package_path2 ...]

• -q - query the package
• -p - get the package name from arguments

It shows the following info:

Name
Version
Release
Architecture
Install Date
Group
Size
License
Signature
Source RPM
Build Date
Build Host
Relocations
Packager
Vendor
URL
Summary
Description

The man page doesn't talk about the -i option in -q context. However, rpm -qp file doesn't produce the right output.