CentOS - Jan 2005 - Change your default rpm query format on multi-lib archs (like x86_64)

All,

I am now building rpms on, and using a multi-lib arch (x86_64) for the
first time ... when using the standard command:

rpm -qa | grep pkg_name


The results might be pkg_name.i386 or pkg_name.x86_64 ... or both.  But,
the way it is shown by the default query format, looks the same ... like
this:

pkg_name
pkg_name
----------------------------
example:

[root at x86-64 ~]# rpm -qa | grep popt

popt-1.9.1-21
popt-1.9.1-21
----------------------------

To fix this problem on multi-lib machines (and change the default query
format), you can change your .rpmmacros (or create a .rpmmacros) in your
user home directory and add this line:

%_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}

---------------------------
Now the result of the above example is:

[root at x86-64 ~]# rpm -qa | grep popt

popt-1.9.1-21.x86_64
popt-1.9.1-21.i386
---------------------------

So now you can easily tell which arch of a program is installed on
multi-lib machines.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> To fix this problem on multi-lib machines (and change the default query
> format), you can change your .rpmmacros (or create a .rpmmacros) in your
> user home directory and add this line:
> 
> %_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}

Wouldnt it make sense for that to be standard on multi-arch releases ???

Or would it break something else ??

Regards
Lance

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> Now the result of the above example is:
> 
> [root at x86-64 ~]# rpm -qa | grep popt
> 
> popt-1.9.1-21.x86_64
> popt-1.9.1-21.i386
> ---------------------------
> 
> So now you can easily tell which arch of a program is installed on
> multi-lib machines.
> 
useless trivia: 'yum list installed'

will display that stuff and epochs if they're there, too.
and in yum 2.1.x it does all that w/o every talking to the repos.

yum -C list installed 
  on 2.0.X will do that same thing.

-sv