Re: rpm -q in %post in RedHat 9

[Ronald Reed <rreed ops sgp arm gov>]

>From a script that I got from another list:

RHVer=`rpm -qp --qf "%{version}\n" RedHat/RPMS/redhat-release-*.rpm`

This is supposed to work for 7.3, 8.0, or 9.0, just change the
RedHat/RPMS to where the rpms are located.

Ron

On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 14:13, Michael J. Carter wrote:
> In RedHat 7.X one could determine the ARCH of a system by executing the
> following command in arch:
> 
> carter guglielmo$ rpm -q --qf '%{ARCH}\n' kernel
> i686
> 
> This returns null in RedHat 9 when executed inside kickstart. Does
> anyone know what changed and if there are any workarounds?
> 
> Thanks,
> mjc
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