[SOLVED] RHEL: Get rpm info as XML

Issue

I need to retrieve the info of an installed RPM (rpm -q "systemd" -i) in XML format. According to the manual, it should be possible using --qf and -i, but I can't find the way to do it.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Solution

Try this:

rpm -qa --xml

This seems to work at least in CentOS 7. Man page about rpm commands query format is misleading IMO.

EDIT:

If the above is not sufficient, then you probably need to construct the xml yourself with the queryformat. Like this:

rpm -q systemd --qf "<name>%{NAME}</name><version>%{version}</version>\n"

You can check available tags with --querytags:

rpm --querytags

Answered By - StefanR