FC5T3: Duplicate packages installed

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Mon Feb 27 13:19:25 UTC 2006


> For FC5 I agree with that of course, since we're nearing the end of the
> FC5 devel cycle.  Once FC6 development begins however, it would be a
> prime time to make this change to rpm in rawhide so that everyone who
> relies on the current behaviour will have plenty of time to fix their
> scripts.
> 
> Then, if it appears there are still a lot of broken scripts out there as
> FC6 nears, we can change it back to the current query results for FC6,
> and then re-change it for FC7 development.
> 
> The end goal being a migration from what it reports now, to what we
> would like it to report in the future, with plenty of time for people
> to fix broken scripts that don't formulate their own --qf queries.
> 
> This allows forward progress, while minimizing problems, and providing
> a migration path.

Alternatively, we could discourage the use of rpm as a command itself
and push people toward using repoquery. repoquery acts on local rpmdb's
as much as repositories.

and repoquery's default format is:
name-epoch:ver-rel.arch


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