Changing the rpm default queryformat to include arch

Lubomir Kundrak lkundrak at redhat.com
Tue Nov 27 18:04:57 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 11:45 -0600, Jima wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> > What's the status of ':' support in windows? Is it possible to use those
> > characters on NTFS? 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?
> 
>   Actually, I tried naming something with a : on someone's XP box yesterday 
> (totally unrelated to this), and it wouldn't let me.  I didn't check, but 
> I can only imagine it was using NTFS (fairly new machine).
> 
> > If only a dash for chosen as an epoch separator instead of a colon...
> 
>   Oh, *that'll* make it more readable. ;-)

Jima, are we talking about readability? Well, then we should exchange
names like orange-devel-0.3-5.cvs20051118.fc8.x86_64.rpm for "Orange
Development Package" and so on. Can you see how nice would they look on
a desktop? ;)

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Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)




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