"apt" to eventaully replace "rpm"?

[John Summerfield]

Zhukov Pavel wrote:
> i think:
> rpm -qa --qf '%{vendor}\n' | sort | uniq -c
[root at js ~]# rpm -qa --qf '%{vendor}\n' | sort | uniq -c
       1 Adobe Systems, Incorporated
     592 CentOS
       3 Dag Apt Repository, http://dag.wieers.com/apt/
       4 http://centos.org
       1 Invoca Systems
       3 (none)
[root at js ~]#

A smarty for you:-)


> 
> On 11/26/07, Dave Burns <tburns at hawaii.edu> wrote:
>> On Nov 25, 2007 10:27 AM, John Summerfield
>> <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
>>> (which might be the reviewer's), Try this example:
>>>
>>> rpm -qa --qf '%vendorn' | sort | uniq -c
>>>       1 Adobe Systems, Incorporated
>>>     12 (none)
>>>       1 RealNetworks, Inc
>>> 838 Red Hat, Inc.
>>>       1 Sun Microsystems
>> I did. I got one of these per package:
>>
>> error: incorrect format: missing { after %
>>
>> Am I using the wrong shell? Have some alias defined that is screwing
>> it up? I was pleased to find a description of --qf in the rpm man page
>> (no examples of course) but no reference to %vendorn. Is it a typo?
>>
>> I tried to take the advice of the error message...
>>
>> rpm -qa --qf '%{vendorn}' | sort | uniq -c
>>
>> error: incorrect format: unknown tag
>>
>> Various other simpleminded variants fail. Apparently someone familiar
>> with printf might be able to fix this, but I am clueless. Is there a
>> way to make it work?

That was the point, the reviewer (correctly) pointed out an error, then 
made two of his own: he left out the {} and he forgot that the n should 
be \n.





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