On Monday 04 December 2006 21:00, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Rex - to further my education - why does > > rpm -qV xine-lib-extras-nonfree > > return nothing at all, even though it is installed? > > Specifying -qV you are asking rpm to both query and verify and > apparently the verify takes prescedence over the query. Used alone -q > will display the package name if a matching package is installed. > Using -V alone will show what files have been modified, with nothing > displayed if no files have been modified. So, running -qV against xawtv gave me a path, which means it's installed and has, presumably been updated. Running the same -qV against xine-lib-extras-nonfree returns nothing, because it has not been updated. It's presence is ignored as far as the report is concerned. Charming! Really helpful. Thanks for explaining. Anne
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