Re: querying for i386 versus x86_64 versions

[Paul Nasrat <pnasrat redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 15:16 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> >> I guessed at the fact that one is an x86_64 version and the other is
> >> an i386 version, but I haven't been able to find a programmatic way
> >> of disambiguating this scenario. There don't seem to be flags to --query
> >> to provide this information, and it is not returned by --info.
> > rpm -q --qf '%{name}.%{arch}\n' samba-common
> 
> Would be nice to have a standard extended format for -q, eg
> 
>     rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n'

popt is your friend in ~/.popt

rpm alias -x -q --qf '%{epoch}:%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n'
rpmq alias -x -q --qf '%{epoch}:%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n'

Or whatever you want:

rpm -qx rpm
(none):rpm-4.4.2-15.2.i386

Paul