On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 12:56 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 5/20/2013 12:28 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > It's entirely possible that I'm missing something, but how does that tell me > > what pre- and post-install steps the rpm does, or what patches are applied to > > the binaries? All I get is a list of files and directories. I don't think > > it's possible to extract a spec file from a binary rpm. Or is it? > > Ah, i thought the OP was asking where the files were installed. > > > As such it is not possible to retrieve the complete spec. The actions can be viewed however with the -- script option to rpm, eg: rpm -q --scripts binutils I do not see how one can see what patches are installed. The problem the OP has comes from the fact that the rpm is not signed, so it must be installed with the --nogpgcheck option to yum. Without the option IIRC yum complains about the missing signature and does not install the package.