Changing the rpm default queryformat to include arch

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Tue Nov 27 11:30:19 UTC 2007


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 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".

I'm changing the default filename too to match this, for this very reason.

 	- Panu -




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