Changing the rpm default queryformat to include arch

[Laurent Rineau]

On Tuesday 27 November 2007 18:31:28 Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 13:51 +0100, Laurent Rineau wrote:
> > Please no. Do not use ":" in filenames. It will prevent a simple backup
> > to a FAT filesystem.
>
> I was going to argue that this is about as bogus argument as saying that
> we should limit rpm filenames to 8.3.

8.3 is a pre-FAT32 limitation. Since Windows XP, everybody uses FAT32 instead 
of the old FAT (even Windows 95 can read and write to FAT32).

> What's the status of ':' support in windows? Is it possible to use those
> characters on NTFS?

NTFS allows the use of ":" (only the null character and "/" is disallowed. 
However, the Win32 API does not permit the use of ":".

> The file name if a package is not important, unless 
> you let rpm satisfy dependencies, does it? What happens when you attempt
> to download a file with a colon in name in Windows -- does it replace it
> with some other character?

I do not know.

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Laurent Rineau
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