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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON 

RPM-MANIFEST(5)            File Formats Manual            RPM-MANIFEST(5)

NAME         top

       rpm-manifest - rpm package manifest file format

SYNOPSIS         top

       GLOB ...

       # COMMENT

DESCRIPTION         top

       RPM package manifest files are plaintext files containing one or
       more glob(7) entries that are expected to match either RPM package
       files or other package manifests.

       Package manifests can be used as a way to document installation of
       large package sets in an RPM-native way, without having to set up
       repositories and configure external dependency resolver programs
       to use them. For end-user purposes manifests are clumsy, but for
       example to quickly install a base image from a pre-determined set
       of package versions from local directory, a manifest may well be
       easier and faster than using a depsolver for the task. A manifest
       can be also used to work around command line length limitations.

       Relative globs are interpreted relative to the user's current
       directory. Multiple globs per line are permitted, but for
       readability it's recommended to use one per line instead.

       Lines beginning with # are considered comments. Empty lines and
       lines consisting of only whitespace are ignored.

EXAMPLES         top

   Example 1. Manifest of all myproj-1.0 releases and their dependencies
           /mnt/myproj/rpm/myproj-1.0-*.x86_64.rpm
           /mnt/deplib/rpm/mylib-2.1-*.x86_64.rpm

   Example 2. Manifest of all noarch packages in the default rpmbuild(1)
       location
           ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/*.rpm

   Example 3. Manifest as a simple base image
       Create a manifest called mymanifest.mft of currently installed
       packages, assuming a base path of /mnt/Packages for the RPM
       package files, and install it to an alternative system root at
       /srv/test:

           rpm -qa --qf '/mnt/Packages/%{nevra}.rpm\n' > mymanifest.mft
           rpm -Uv --root /srv/test mymanifest.mft

SEE ALSO         top

       rpm(8) rpm-common(8)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the rpm (RPM Package Manager) project.
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RPM 6.0.90                      2026-01-16                RPM-MANIFEST(5)

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