Changing the rpm default queryformat to include arch
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Nov 27 11:24:18 UTC 2007
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 at 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".
Ralf
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