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Re: Crossed relays in RPM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Wed Nov 4 14:08:27 1998
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 18:17:24 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <98110409452800.02023@belvdere>; from David E. Fox on Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 09:39:16AM -0800
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David E. Fox writes:
>
[...]
>
> rpm is a bit finicky (and I wish they'd change this) with respect to
> when it needs the whole RPM name (e.g., gcc-2.7.2-1.i386.rpm) vs.
> just the package name (e.g., gcc-2.7.2-1). For instance, I have the
> egcs RPM here, and if I do an rpm -qi egcs-1.0.3.i386.rpm it says the
> package is not installed, but if I do an rpm -qi egcs-1.0.3, it gives
> me the information.
[...]
In addition, one can try something like this:
rpm -qa | grep egcs (for egcs....)
That way, it doesn't matter whether rpm is looking for the long or short
name, and you can use regular expressions if necessary.
Thomas
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