Changing the rpm default queryformat to include arch

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Nov 27 17:31:41 UTC 2007


Panu Matilainen (pmatilai at laiskiainen.org) said: 
> Why do you think it's bad - because of the ':' used as separator, or "just 
> because" (epochs are evil and all that)?

It uses a valid release character as a separator between epoch and
release, making parsing without reading the header more 'interesting',
without knowing which version of RPM created the file.

Bill




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