I love to find RPM files that someone has compiled so that I don’t have to do the manual work but when I find one at a questionable location or one I’m simply not familiar with it’s nice to know what is in it.
Recently I did a search on RPMFind.net for Redis (https://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=redis)
I found what I was looking for but it it has an IP instead of a domain.
Doing a quick lookup on the IP I didn’t get much more than that it’s a French IP address block.
I found a nice article on nixCraft (http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-extract-an-rpm-package-without-installing-it.html) that described how to extract the RPM.
cd ~/ wget -O RedHat_Redis.rpm ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/remi/enterprise/7/remi/x86_64/redis-3.0.7-1.el7.remi.x86_64.rpm rpm2cpio RedHat_Redis.rpm | cpio -idmv
The command will output something like this
$ rpm2cpio RedHat_Redis.rpm | cpio -idmv ./etc/logrotate.d/redis ./etc/redis-sentinel.conf ./etc/redis.conf ./etc/systemd/system/redis-sentinel.service.d ./etc/systemd/system/redis-sentinel.service.d/limit.conf ./etc/systemd/system/redis.service.d ./etc/systemd/system/redis.service.d/limit.conf ./usr/bin/redis-benchmark ./usr/bin/redis-check-aof ./usr/bin/redis-check-dump ./usr/bin/redis-cli ./usr/bin/redis-sentinel ./usr/bin/redis-server ./usr/bin/redis-shutdown ./usr/lib/systemd/system/redis-sentinel.service ./usr/lib/systemd/system/redis.service ./usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/redis.conf ./usr/share/doc/redis-3.0.7 ./usr/share/doc/redis-3.0.7/00-RELEASENOTES ./usr/share/doc/redis-3.0.7/BUGS ./usr/share/doc/redis-3.0.7/CONTRIBUTING ./usr/share/doc/redis-3.0.7/MANIFESTO ./usr/share/doc/redis-3.0.7/README ./usr/share/licenses/redis-3.0.7 ./usr/share/licenses/redis-3.0.7/COPYING ./var/lib/redis ./var/log/redis ./var/run/redis 2366 blocks $
Now I can go and nano or vi each file to to compare to to the files that I have from building from source.
References: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-extract-an-rpm-package-without-installing-it.html