Re: Changing the rpm default queryformat to include arch

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

>  On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 13:10 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 10:49 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >>> To put it shortly, I going to switch the default rpm queryformat to
> >>> include package architecture (ie what you get now with
> >>> rpm -q --qf "%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n") in a few
> days or
> >>> so.
> >>
> >> Not %{name}-%|epoch?{%{epoch}:}|%{version}-%{release}.%{arch} ? :)
> >
> > FWIW, upstream rpm.org now uses this as the default queryformat and
> > supports it in queries etc:
> > [pmatilai@localhost rpm]$ ./rpmq -q gimp-2:2.4.1-1.fc8.x86_64
> > gimp-2:2.4.1-1.fc8.x86_64
>  -1
>
> > The epoch is the most significant factor in version comparison, might as
> > well show it...
>  with this queryformat people now will start bitching on why they can't
>  find a file of this name - the same applies to "all small letters file
>  names". 
I'm changing the default filename too to match this, for this very reason.

 	- Panu -