Re: two questions

[tony chamberlain lemko com]

yes but that would not find the foo/pub nor foo/tavern

-----Original Message-----
From: Hiren Patel [mailto:patelhn telkom co za]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 09:33 AM
To: 'RPM Package Manager'
Subject: Re: two questions

does rpm -q -g foo/bar
work for you?



On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 13:03 +0000, tony chamberlain lemko com wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 1. Does anyone have any suggestions for package naming?  Some packages
> will be ok,
>     but others not.  For instance, we have a watchdog package.  If I
> call it "dog" there is
>     a high chance ther may be some other package named "dog" installed
> on a system that
>     this one would also go on, and there could be a conflict.  It
> could be a completely different
>     independent watch dog program.  I know Java packages have the
> company name and all
>     that in reverse, like com.mcdonalds.hamburger.utils or whatever
> (that name is just an
>     example).
> 
>     Should packages be named similarly, like
> com-mcdonalds-hamburger-utils-1.0.0.rpm in case
>     there are other packages named util?
> 
> 2. I have been giving my packages group names (like in the examples
> Applications/Databases).
>     You can do an rpm query like    rpm -q -g Applications/Databases
> to find rpms with that group.
>     Now say you have a company called "foo" and you give your groups
> names such as
>     foo/bar, foo/pub, foo/tavern.  You want to find all the groups
> with foo.  rpm -q -g foo/* does not work.
>     Nor does rpm -q -g foo.  Is there any way to do this?
>     (other than    rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}\t
> %{GROUP}\n'  |  grep -i foo
> 
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