Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:32:13 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay
<balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I guess ideally yum could provide this feature (similar to 'yum list
> extras') - but currently its easy to do the following:
> 
> rpm -qa |grep \.fr

the distag is a hack... used to abuse the rpm tagging structures... to
incorporate information into the default rpm -q output that was not
really intended to be there by default.
VENDOR tag does exist and it should be used for this information.
rpm -q ---qf  exists to get access to tag strings.
rpm --querytags to get a list of tags to use

/etc/cron.daily/rpm   has a good easy to follow example of how to use
--qf  querystrings.

-jef