Re: rpm -qg Development/* ?

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 02:58:01PM -0600, Rob Nagler wrote:
> Jeff Johnson writes:
> > 	rpm -qag | grep 'Development/*'
> 
> rpm 4.0.4 gives me:
> 
>   rpmq: one type of query/verify may be performed at a time

Hmm, there was some problem with returning empty results taht was
fixed in the last month or so. Try rpm-4.0.4 from the 7.3 release (but
the problem may exist in 7.3, I fergit).

> 
> What I'm trying to do is:
> 
> rpm -qa --queryformat '%30{group} %{name}-%{version}-%{release}\n' | grep Development/
> 
> but in a reasonable shorthand.  There are a number of queries like
> this, e.g. find all packages from a vendor.  It probably doesn't make
> sense to build us into RPM.

Certainly no reason to build into rpm, but you might want to
use some popt aliases to minimize typing. See /usr/lib/rpm/rpmpopt
for examples like --info, --requires, etc.

73 de Jeff

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