Changing the rpm default queryformat to include arch

Jima jima at beer.tclug.org
Tue Nov 27 17:45:10 UTC 2007


On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> What's the status of ':' support in windows? Is it possible to use those
> characters on NTFS? The file name if a package is not important, unless
> you let rpm satisfy dependencies, does it? What happens when you attempt
> to download a file with a colon in name in Windows -- does it replace it
> with some other character?

  Actually, I tried naming something with a : on someone's XP box yesterday 
(totally unrelated to this), and it wouldn't let me.  I didn't check, but 
I can only imagine it was using NTFS (fairly new machine).

> If only a dash for chosen as an epoch separator instead of a colon...

  Oh, *that'll* make it more readable. ;-)

      Jima




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