Re: PROPOSAL: command line for LSB package program

[Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Guilherme Manika wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:48:59PM -0700, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> > ------- start of cut text --------------
> > name:<package name>
> > version:<package version>
> > <additional defined fields, including method for vendor specific fields?>
> > ------- end ----------------------------
> 
>   I hope you are thinking:
> 
> _("name"):<package name>
> _("version"):<package version>
> 
>   etc, unless this utility is simply not supposed to be used by humans.

And
  _("description"):_(<package description>)

and similiar.

>   In both cases, something like RPM queryformat would probably be interesting,
> so that you can define how you want your output.

Exactly how we'll implement this ;-) (RPM + queryformat + popt) = solution ;-)

Erik

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