OT - RPM queries [was Re: Firefox, Flash and Java on CentOS 4.1 x86-64]

[Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov (Phil Schaffner)]

On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 02:29 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Does anyone know how to easily list the arch of packages on a system?
> I can't seem to figure out something from "rpm" at the CLI.

I have the following in ~/.rpmmacros:

# Change default RPM query format to show ARCH
%_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}

Example:
# rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.3.4-2.9.i686
glibc-2.3.4-2.9.x86_64

Can do something similar from the command-line:
$ rpm -q --queryformat='%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' openldap
openldap-2.2.13-2.i386
openldap-2.2.13-2.x86_64

While OT - A sometimes-useful variant:
$ rpm -qa --queryformat='%{epoch}:%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' aspell
12:aspell-0.50.5-3.fc3.x86_64
12:aspell-0.50.5-3.fc3.i386

Phil