On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:32:13 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay <balay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I guess ideally yum could provide this feature (similar to 'yum list > extras') - but currently its easy to do the following: > > rpm -qa |grep \.fr the distag is a hack... used to abuse the rpm tagging structures... to incorporate information into the default rpm -q output that was not really intended to be there by default. VENDOR tag does exist and it should be used for this information. rpm -q ---qf exists to get access to tag strings. rpm --querytags to get a list of tags to use /etc/cron.daily/rpm has a good easy to follow example of how to use --qf querystrings. -jef