Yum oddness

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 20:13:23 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 03:49 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> > No epoch is equivalent to epoch zero. That's why it wasn't
> displayed.
> 
> To be clear:
> By default "$ rpm -q" ($ rpm -qi) does not show epoch information even
> if the rpm actually has epoch.

That might be worth revising. The rpm queryformat expressions are not
well documented on the man page (you have to know what the various tag
headers are called for one thing, and it's not clear where to discover
that short of reading the RPM book or the source).

poc



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