query formats with rpm
David A. Bandel
david
Mon May 17 11:28:37 PDT 2004
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:04:34 -0500
begin kurt.wall at timesys.com spewed forth:
> Typing furiously on March 17, Joel Hammer managed to emit:
> > Could someone give me an example of using query formats with rpm?
> > The man page says -qf followed by the format tag, like %{NAME} should
> > do something useful, but I can't get it to work, at least on
> > uninstalled packages.
> > Thanks,
> > Joel
>
> The man page say "--qf", that is, 2 hyphens.
>
That's odd. I _know_ I've never used 2 hyphens with -q and it works fine
here.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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