Re: rpm database problem

["Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery kf8nh apk net>]

On 08/21/00 14:58:01 -0700 Joe Renes <yukon@pfennig.ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
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| I'm having a bit of trouble with the rpm database. querying it with
| rpm -q -a gives a nice big list, but querying a specific package, e.g.
| rpm -q xcdroast[blah] says xcdroast not installed, when the global
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I bet you're including the .i386.rpm suffix.  That's not part of the 
*package* name, it's part of the *file* name.  The name shown in the "rpm 
-qa" listing is the full name by which RPM knows the package; you can leave 
off the revision and the version, but you can't add anything to it and 
expect RPM to find the package.

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