Re: yum list available weird output
Seth Vidal <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.yum |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Gerry Reno wrote: > James Antill wrote: >> Gerry Reno <[email protected]> writes: >> >> >>> Ok, here's another question: >>> I do this: >>> repoquery -qa --pkgnarrow=installed --archlist=i386 >>> <returns not just i386 but others such as 'noarch' as well> >>> >>> The --archlist isn't restricting the list. Is this a bug? >>> >> >> Not really, --archlist doesn't work on the rpmdb data. >> >> Also --archlist isn't really meant as a generic filter, it's meant as >> a way to make querying a ppc repo. work on an i386 box ... the fact >> you can use it as a repo. filter is mostly a side effect. >> >> > It's a good option. And it would be a great option if it could be made to > work as a filter for all queries including the rpmdb. In general repoquery shouldn't be acting on the local rpmdb and in a slightly later version of yum-utils repoquery will never list any output of a pkg from the rpmdb. it ONLY acts on the repos. -sv