'--queryformat' option for yum 'groupinfo' and other yum commands ??

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Apr 6 07:42:54 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 15:22 -0700, Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  Newbie questions: Any one know if there is an yum
> option similar to '--queryformat' for rpm? I ask this
> because on x86_64 platform it is too difficult to
> figure out whether a rpm reported by yum is x86_64 or
> i[3456]86.
> 
>  Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> testnode01.example.com root 11% yum groupinfo
> 'Editors'
> Setting up Group Process
> Setting up repositories
> 
> Group: Editors
>  Required Groups:
>    Base
>  Optional Metapkgs:
>    Emacs
>  Default Packages:
>    vim-enhanced
>  Optional Packages
>    joe
>    vim-X11
> testnode01.example.com root 12% rpm -q --queryformat
> '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' vim-enhanced
> vim-X11
> vim-enhanced-6.3.086-0.fc4_alexaRecompile.x86_64
> vim-X11-6.3.086-0.fc4_alexaRecompile.x86_64

I theory, repoquery (part of yum-utils in Extras) can do this, but its
group support seems to be broken in FC5 (#186413 ).

Paul.




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