Miscellaneous utilities

rpmlint

A lint for rpms packages.

Perl-RPM

The Perl-RPM package is an attempt at native Perl-level bindings for the RPM Package Manager

rpm2cpio.pl

The rpm2cpio converter written in perl.

InDependence

Project to develop a system to automatially satisfy RPM dependencies

Rpm Extractor

An rpm extractor for Windows.

RpmLevel

A perl utility for getting a synopsis of the rpms currently installed on a system

ezrpm

EzRPM takes one or more .rpm filenames as parameters, and installs, them handling all dependencies by installing *additional* .rpms as necessary

rpm.cgi

RPM.CGI allows browsing of the diffent RPMs installed on a system and provides different pages for the different information stored in the RPM database.

build-package

Perl package to build rpms and debs from source packages.

setup.sh

A shell script to build rms from source packages.

slackrpm

A program which creates Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) packages from Slackware packages.

alien

Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats

rpm-utils

RPM-Utils is a collection of scripts for dealing with Red Hat Packages (RPMs). There are files that will check a directory of RPMs against those already installed, extract only a certain file from an RPM, or search directories for files that do not belong to an RPM.

autoinst

RedHat RPM Auto Package installation plugin for Netscape Communicator. When installed autoinst will automatically install rpm's clicked while in Netscape.

pkgmaker

PkgMaker is a tool to build a Solaris package in the standard pkgadd format, from an RPM source package.

cfmhrlis

Perl script to generate a list of files in /etc and config files identified by rpm as config files.

rpmdep

A Perl-script to find dependencies for a set of RPMs.

rpmdepend

rpmdepend checks all installed rpm packages and reports on whether their dependencies are satisfied.

jrpm

A Japanese rpm project.

bash programmable completion -- with RPM awareness, by Ian Macdonald - also here

The package adds functionality lookup 'responses' to accelerate [tab] conmpletion of opten-used bash shell commands -- RPM awareness is one of the covered packages.

checkinstall -- intermittent

Review of a program that replaces "make install" in a built source tree and constructs an RPM or DEB from it.