Changing the rpm default queryformat to include arch

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Tue Nov 27 19:19:02 UTC 2007


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Putting the epoch into the filename output as the second most
> significant piece of information will be more disruptive to shell
> scriptable interactions than tacking on the arch at the end.
> Putting the information into an interactive interface that people do
> not commonly rely on in a scripted way is far less disruptive.

Anyone that's parsing rpm output in a script should have been using
the --qf option a long time ago to ensure that they get the output
they want, really.

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