4.2.10.7. Other Query Format Tags

In addition to all these tags, there are a number of other miscellaneous tags, many of which are listed in Table 5-6.

Table 5-6 Other query tags

Tag	Holds
ARCHIVESIZE	Uncompressed size of the payload section
COOKIE	Holds an opaque string
RPMVERSION	Holds the version of the RPM tool used to create the package
OPTFLAGS	Compiler optimization flags used to build the package
PAYLOADFORMAT	Must be cpio for LSB-compliant packages
PAYLOADCOMPRESSOR	Must be gzip for LSB-compliant packages
PAYLOADFLAGS	Must be 9 for LSB-compliant packages
RHNPLATFORM	Holds an opaque string
FILEVERIFYFLAGS	Bitmask that specifies which tests to perform to verify the files after an install

For example, you can list the version of RPM that created a package with a command like the following:

$ rpm -qp --qf "%{name} - rpm %{rpmversion}\n" *.rpm

acroread - rpm 2.5.5

canvas - rpm 3.0.3

jikes - rpm 4.0.2

SDL - rpm 2.5.1

ted - rpm 2.5.5

Cross Reference

See Chapter 24, RPM Package File Structure for a listing of all the tags in an RPM file.