> Seth, is it possible that name or arch is a list here? That would do > it. > damn it - I think I know what this is - it's a new rpm-broken-ism. all items are being returned as lists, even if they will only ever be one-item lists. the reason I've not seen it yet is b/c it's been corrected in rpm in fedora core. it's not hard to correct, but really irritating. -sv