On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:01:34PM -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 10:31 -0500, Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 05:28:38PM -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
rpm -q --qf "%{version}\n" `rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release`
Instead of hard-coding the filename, how about using the Provides: that is in the package?
rpm -q --whatprovides --qf "%{version}\n" redhat-release
We can't use "--qf "%{version}\n" in the macro.
Problems with %{version} aside, my point was that Jeff Johnson mentioned to me once that the best way to get the distro version package is to get what Provides: redhat-release, not hardcoding either /etc/redhat-release or the package name redhat-release. So:
rpm -q --whatprovides redhat-release
rather than:
rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release