Changing the rpm default queryformat to include arch

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 26 12:08:55 UTC 2007


Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The ugly part is that it makes parsing harder as you have to account 
>>> for the possibility of epoch being or not being there always, but 
>>> OTOH you can always pick your own queryformat if you don't want to 
>>> deal with it.
>>
>> Can't you unconditionally have a epoch number listed all the time? 0 
>> if there is no epoch for that package.
> 
> Obviously you CAN, but do you REALLY want to?

Personally, yes. I would like to see epoch listed always so that we get 
a consistent format for other scripts to parse.

Rahul




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