Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Sun Dec 19 04:09:16 UTC 2004


On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:57:47 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> > [...] Fedora does not need a confusing sitation 
> > where you don't know where a package comes from if people paste you screen 
> > output or look at your package list.
> > 
> > In a lot of postings people could indicate what the problem was by the 
> > initial posting, I don't want to ask people to do a rpm -qa --qf 
> > '%{name} %{vendor}\n' to eventually get the right information.
> 
> Then supply them with the right tools which aid them in collecting the
> relevant information about their installation. 

Why ? It would still require me to tell him in a seperate mail to run 
something. In most cases this is obsolete as the right information (with 
the error) was copy&pasted.

I want this information in /var/log/rpmpkgs too, or in rpm -qa

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