Linux text editors

Aaron Gaudio prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org
Tue Sep 14 14:58:45 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 21:38 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> rpm -qp --queryformat='%{Group} %{name}\n' * | grep Editors
> 
> I mounted my ISO images using the loop device, then symlinked all the RPMS 
> directories to one directory, and used yum-arch to create yum headers. I 
> put this directory in my /etc/yum.conf, and also have the packages 
> available for queries like this.
> 

An easier way would have been to install the rpmdb-fedora package. This
contains a package db for all the packages which are part of the fedora
install set. Then, use '--dbpath /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-
linux/redhat' to your rpm query command.





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