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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:12:33 -0700 From: Steve M Bibayoff <smb23@csufresno.edu> To: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Re: determine the arch of rpm? George Georgalis <georgw@galis.org> wrote: > $ rpm --queryformat > "%{NAME}\t%{VERSION}\t%{RELEASE}\t%{PLATFORM}\n" -q kernel > kernel 2.4.9 34 i686-redhat-linux > > You can use this to see all tags available > rpm --querytags > > I pulled up these while jogging my memory in with the man page... > $ rpm -qa --last > $ rpm --changelog -q kernel After seeing this and rereadind the man page, now I have another reason why I like deb's. Thanks Steve --===============94292794710432259== Content-Type: message/rfc822 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:21:11 -0400 From: George Georgalis <georgw@galis.org> To: Steve M Bibayoff <smb23@csufresno.edu> Cc: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: [svlug] Re: determine the arch of rpm? Message-ID: <20020918122111.C1607@trot> In-Reply-To: <e74dee70ec.e70ece74de@scccd.org>; from smb23@csufresno.edu on Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:12:33AM -0700 References: <e74dee70ec.e70ece74de@scccd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: list Message: 8 On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:12:33AM -0700, Steve M Bibayoff wrote: >George Georgalis <georgw@galis.org> wrote: > >> $ rpm --queryformat >> "%{NAME}\t%{VERSION}\t%{RELEASE}\t%{PLATFORM}\n" -q kernel >> kernel 2.4.9 34 i686-redhat-linux >> >> You can use this to see all tags available >> rpm --querytags >> >> I pulled up these while jogging my memory in with the man page... >> $ rpm -qa --last >> $ rpm --changelog -q kernel > >After seeing this and rereadind the man page, now I have another reason >why I like deb's. How do you get the uncommon information out of a deb? // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:george@galis.org File, Print, DB and DNS Servers. http://www.galis.org/george --===============94292794710432259== Content-Type: message/rfc822 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:23:50 -0700 From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> To: Steve M Bibayoff <smb23@csufresno.edu> Cc: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Re: determine the arch of rpm? Message-ID: <15791.1032366230@kanga.nu> In-Reply-To: Message from Steve M Bibayoff <smb23@csufresno.edu> of "Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:12:33 PDT." <e74dee70ec.e70ece74de@scccd.org> References: <e74dee70ec.e70ece74de@scccd.org> Precedence: list Message: 9 MIME-Version: 1.0 On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:12:33 -0700 Steve M Bibayoff <Steve> wrote: > After seeing this and rereadind the man page, now I have another > reason why I like deb's. apt-changelist is rahter nice as well. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw@kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. --===============11091824964467456== Content-Type: message/rfc822 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:24:05 -0700 From: Steve M Bibayoff <smb23@csufresno.edu> To: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: [svlug] Re: determine the arch of rpm? Message-ID: <f5801f50a5.f50a5f5801@scccd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: list Message: 4 George Georgalis <georgw@galis.org> wrote: > How do you get the uncommon information out of a deb? Not sure what you mean by "uncommon information" but I ussualy do a: # apt-cache show package-name where package-name is the actual package name. This gives me info on the package plus if I have it installed and if there is a newer version. If this is what you are asking for. Steve --===============11091824964467456== Content-Type: message/rfc822 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:17:19 -0400 From: George Georgalis <georgw@galis.org> To: Steve M Bibayoff <smb23@csufresno.edu> Cc: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: [svlug] Re: determine the arch of rpm? Message-ID: <20020918141719.G1607@trot> In-Reply-To: <f5801f50a5.f50a5f5801@scccd.org>; from smb23@csufresno.edu on Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 10:24:05AM -0700 References: <f5801f50a5.f50a5f5801@scccd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: list Message: 5 On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 10:24:05AM -0700, Steve M Bibayoff wrote: >George Georgalis <georgw@galis.org> wrote: > >> How do you get the uncommon information out of a deb? > >Not sure what you mean by "uncommon information" but I ussualy do a: ># apt-cache show package-name >where package-name is the actual package name. This gives me info on the >package plus if I have it installed and if there is a newer version. Just doing some deb command review... By uncommon information I mean the parameters you don't normally need but which are kept in the database (and for which rpm requires printf strings to retrieve). There are 113 fields in the current rpm package db. $ rpm --querytags | wc -l 113 Note, from what I've seen deb is better than rpm. Haven't used debian for a while now, for historical and professional reasons. But now that stable uses a 2.4 kernel, I really should give it a spin again. // George