Thanks!
--- Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote:
> Because you want rpm -qip, f tells rpm to look at the file and determine
> what
> rpm it belongs to.  p tells rpm you're looking at an rpm package and want
> some
> info from it.
> 
> "James A. N. Stauffer" <stauffer_james at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > Warning: Stupid question!
> > Why doesn't the following work?
> > rpm -qif
> >
>
ftp://ftp.mn-linux.org/linux/redhat/redhat-7.0-en/os/i386/SRPMS/basesystem-7.0-2.src.rpm
> > It tells me "No such file or directory"  I even tried ftping it to the
> > local directory and I still couldn't get it to work.  (I am comfortable
> > with Linux but have not used command line rpm much.)
> > 
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