Bug 1306438

Summary: rpm -l --noghost does not work
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek>
Component: rpmAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2016-02-10 21:08:00 UTC 
Description of problem:
rpm accepts undocumented option --noghost (mentioned on the web in a few places), but it has no effect:

$ rpm -ql systemd|grep /etc/hostname
/etc/hostname
$rpm -ql --noghost systemd|grep /etc/hostname
/etc/hostname

rpm --dump also doesn't return this information.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.13.0-0.rc1.7.fc23.x86_64

Expected results:
It's possible to query the contents of an rpm without installing it.
Comment 1 Ľuboš Kardoš 2016-02-11 08:44:42 UTC 
Yes, it seems that "--noghost" doesn't work. For now you can use:

    rpm -q --qf "[%{filenames}\t%{fileflags:fflags}\n]" packagename

"g" means a ghost file in the output of this command.
Comment 2 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2016-02-11 12:58:53 UTC 
OK, thanks for the info.
Comment 3 Ľuboš Kardoš 2016-02-19 12:31:18 UTC 
Fixed upstream [1]. There is an easy workaround for rpm which is in Fedora now. This fix will get into Fedora when the new rpm will be released and pushed to Fedora. If you really need this fix in the current Fedora, please reopen the bug.

[1] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/efd696d32d343b82832dd9e4aee992bff8e64ad0