- To: Malcolm V <farkit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] RPM complaints while trying to install XFree86 4.2.0
- From: Colin Humphreys <ch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Sep 5 12:54:02 2002
- Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
<snip>
> (as an aside to Mr Humpherys)
> Querying rpm directly for it's version doesn't necessarily give you any
> information regarding the package version.
Sure. It will teach me for not reading the whole thread and just
replying to:
> There appears to be no way to get rpm to tell you what version it is,
I think I answered that one.....:) Package versions in rpm are nasty,
especially with epochs and things.
rpm -qi rpm
might be better.
-Colin
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