Re: querying for i386 versus x86_64 versions

[Tim Mooney <mooney dogbert cc ndsu NoDak edu>]

In regard to: Re: querying for i386 versus x86_64 versions, Dan Hollis said...:

> 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'

rpm has popt support built in (and deeply intertwined).  You could easily
create a popt option to do exactly that.  Or you could go the shell route
and create an alias or function that does what you need.

If you write the popt alias, be sure you share it with the list.  ;-)

Tim
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