Bug 247239

BTW: the German version looks more strange, too:

$ rpm -q --last kernel kernel-smp | grep -wv ^package
kernel-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6                      Di 26 Jun 2007 10:51:05 CEST
kernel-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6                      Do 31 Mai 2007 10:44:34 CEST
Das                                           Paket kernel-smp ist nicht installiert

I even don't know whether following use of option should result in:

$ LANG=C rpm -q --queryformat "%{name}-%{version}-%{release} %{installtime}\n"
--last kernel kernel-smp
kernel-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6                      Tue Jun 26 10:51:05 2007
kernel-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6                      Thu May 31 10:44:34 2007
package                                       kernel-smp is not installed
kernel-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6                      1182847865
kernel-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6                      1180601074

$ LANG=de_DE rpm -q --queryformat "%{name}-%{version}-%{release}
%{installtime}\n" --last kernel kernel-smp
kernel-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6                      Di 26 Jun 2007 10:51:05 CEST
kernel-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6                      Do 31 Mai 2007 10:44:34 CEST
kernel-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6                      1182847865
kernel-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6                      1180601074
Das                                           Paket kernel-smp ist nicht installiert

The --last option is intended to be used as
    rpm -qa --last
not as you are using.

Try
    rpm -qa --last | grep kernel
instead.

One point worth noting here is that the "package not installed" error message
goes to stdout. If it went to stderr instead (like it probably should), it'd be
nicer to filter out in the popt alias...

Not going to fix for FC6 (and intented usage described in c#3) but moving to
devel as a reminder for self regarding stdout/stderr behavior.

Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported
during the development of Fedora 8. In order to refocus our efforts as
a project we are changing the version of this bug to '8'.

If this bug still exists in rawhide, please change the version back to
rawhide.
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doesn't happen again.

Still happen in rpm-4.4.2.2-7.fc8

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Still existing at least in F9

$ LC_ALL=C rpm -q --last kernel kernel-smp
kernel-2.6.27.5-41.fc9                        Wed Nov 19 23:24:58 2008
kernel-2.6.27.5-37.fc9                        Sun Nov 16 09:40:38 2008
package                                       kernel-smp is not installed
$ rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.4.2.3-2.fc9.i386

Not going to get fixed for F9 or F10 either for that matter, changing the stdout/stderr behavior of rpm would break loads of existing scripts so this is not something that can be fixed "just like that".

Moving this to upstream tracking: http://rpm.org/ticket/31