Often when building RedHat RPM packages I want to make sure that the package built correctly and all the files are present before I actually install the RPM, but I do keep forgetting the command to do this, so here it is for prosperity!

<br /> rpm -qlp<br />

e.g.

<br /> root@build:/usr/src/redhat/SPECS# rpm -qlp ../RPMS/noarch/servicemap-0.16-1.noarch.rpm<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amq.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqfail.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqreportingprov1prov1.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqreportingprov1prov2.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqreportingprov2prov1.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqreportingprov2prov2.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqsdrprov1prov1.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqsdrprov1prov2.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqsdrprov2prov1.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqsdrprov2prov2.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqslee1fail.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqslee1prov1.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqslee1prov2.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqslee2fail.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqslee2prov1.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqslee2prov2.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqvqeprov1prov1.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqvqeprov1prov2.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqvqeprov2prov1.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqvqeprov2prov2.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqwebserviceprov1prov1.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqwebserviceprov1prov2.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqwebserviceprov2prov1.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/amqwebserviceprov2prov2.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/checks.php<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/config.php<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/hash.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/index.php<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/nagios.php<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/script.php<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/sleevipactivenotok.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/style.php<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/ttprov1.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/ttprov1prov2.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/ttprov2.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/ttprov2prov1.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/ttprovfail.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/ttslee1.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/ttslee1slee2.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/ttslee2.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/ttsleefail.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/ttvipactivenotok.png<br /> /var/www/html/servicemap/ttvipactiveok.png<br />

We’re rolling out a RedHat platform for a major product delivery to a client in the next couple of weeks, which is a great chance for me to build a fresh platform using all the skills I’ve acquired and actually do things properly (TM).

We’re using RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 because this is a very critical deployment and we want an Operating System that is certified to both our hardware and software applications, something that unfortunately Ubuntu does not deliver.

I had a crazy weird bug today whilst running Puppet on one of our CentOS boxes where no packages were being installed. A quick investigation with yum yielded the following scenario!

Id I tried to use yum as root or with sudo it gave the following error ..

<br /> [idimmu@server ~]$ sudo yum check-update<br /> rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries<br /> error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument<br /> error: cannot open Providename index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory (12)<br /> Repository update is listed more than once in the configuration<br /> Repository base is listed more than once in the configuration<br /> Setting up repositories<br /> https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/Null/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found<br /> Trying other mirror.<br /> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: update<br /> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from update: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.<br /> Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from update: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.<br />