On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 11:14 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 08:10 -0700, Shahms King wrote:
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> The default rpm query format of %{name}-%{version}-%{release} is less
> than optimal on x86_64 where the x86_64 and i386 versions of some
> packages are installed. I've modified my local rpm macros by creating
> "/etc/rpm/macros.local" with:
> %_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}
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> which solves the problem on my computer, but has any thought been given
> to making this the default, at least on x86_64 (or other multi-lib archs)?
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will break A LOT of scripts and other items if you do.
Sure it'll break a lot of things, but that breakage is trivial to fix in
scripts by specifying alternative queryformat. Dunno if there are
commercial non-OSS applications parsing rpm default output but frankly I
don't care if they break. OTOH, <shrug>.
- Panu -