> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 16:37
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: RE: How can rpm "%{SUMMARY}" not be consistent?
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]
On
> > Behalf Of Akemi Yagi
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:20
> > To: CentOS mailing list
> > Subject: Re: How can rpm "%{SUMMARY}" not be consistent?
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:56 AM, John Hodrien
> <J.H.Hodrien@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> > >
> > >> What you are seeing is indeed odd. I see 'version 3.1' but not
'3.2'
> > >> anywhere on the Summary line of bash.
>
> I would have said you also seeing 'version 3.1.' is one of the very
odd
> things, but then I check the bash rpm in a repo and it has 'version
> 3.1.' in the 3.2-32.el5 rpm.
>
I think I know some of what is causing what is going on now...
After a little testing with a format string of
'"%{VENDOR}","%{NAME}","%{VERSION}","%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}","%{ARCH}","%
{INSTALLTIME:date}"\n'
I found I got different results based on the LANG environment setting,
which led me to try it with the SUMMARY field too.
###start with a normally configured terminal
$ cd /to/your/CentOS/mirror/
$ locale |grep LANG
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
$ rpm -q \
--qf
'"%{VENDOR}","%{NAME}","%{VERSION}","%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}","%{ARCH}","%
{SUMMARY}"\n' \
-p 5.7/os/i386/CentOS/bash-3.2-32.el5.i386.rpm
"CentOS","bash","3.2","3.2-32.el5","i386","The GNU Bourne Again shell
(bash) version 3.1."
#now change LANG to what I see from cron
$ export LANG=
$ locale |grep LANG
LANG=
$ rpm -q \
--qf
'"%{VENDOR}","%{NAME}","%{VERSION}","%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}","%{ARCH}","%
{SUMMARY}"\n' \
-p 5.7/os/i386/CentOS/bash-3.2-32.el5.i386.rpm
"CentOS","bash","3.2","3.2-32.el5","i386","The GNU Bourne Again shell
(bash) version 3.2"
Why does a number in a text string change based on LANG?
####and for added fun... look at an agg package from epel
$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
$ rpm -q --qf
'"%{VENDOR}","%{NAME}","%{VERSION}","%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}","%{ARCH}","%
{SUMMARY}"\n' agg
"Fedora Project","agg","2.5","2.5-9.el5","i386","Anti-Grain Geometry"
$ export LANG=
$ rpm -q --qf
'"%{VENDOR}","%{NAME}","%{VERSION}","%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}","%{ARCH}","%
{SUMMARY}"\n' agg
"Fedora Project","agg","2.5","2.5-9.el5","i386","Anti-Grain Geometry
graphical rendering engine"
Why does the string length change this dramatically based on LANG?
Well I guess I at least know what I need to do to the script to have it
be consistent.
I might even get around to filing a RH bug, because this does not seem
to me to be a correct behavior to me. does anyone here see these changes
as correct behavior (and why)?
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