Re: querying for i386 versus x86_64 versions

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Mar 14, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Dan Hollis wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > On Mar 14, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > > Maybe available with someting like -qx ? x being xtended format.  
> > > so you can easily type
> > >   rpm -qax
> > > instead of
> > >   rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n'
> > This is the *default* setting for the query format string for  
> > quite some months now:
> >
> > #
> > # Default headerSprintf() output format string for rpm -qa
> > #
> > # XXX   Note: escaped %% for use in headerSprintf()
> > %_query_all_fmt         %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}
>
> In fedora core 4?

I've forgotten what is in FC4, but you are far from the first to  
point out the problem.

Try
     strings /usr/lib/librpm-4*.so | grep query_all_fmt

If the string is there, put in /etc/rpm/macros:
     %_query_all_fmt         %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}
and be happy.

73 de Jeff