Re: rpm -q in %post in RedHat 9

[John <red computerdatasafe com au>]

On 15 May 2003, Ronald Reed wrote:

> >From a script that I got from another list:
> 
> RHVer=`rpm -qp --qf "%{version}\n" RedHat/RPMS/redhat-release-*.rpm`

The question was about the architecture, not the release.

Michael's approach is imperfect, even on RHL 7.3: if fails if there's a
i386 kernel installed, returns multiple values if there are several.

> 
> 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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