Bug 3008

Summary:	rpm returns undef when it should probably return (none) for unknown fields
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	jauderho
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description jauderho 1999-05-24 17:49:27 UTC

> BTW there is another bug where if an older rpm does not
know about a
> newer field, it returns undef. I think the correct
behavior is for it to
> return "(none)".
>
> I.e. asking an older rpm about URL returns nothing. It
exposed a bug/
> workaround I had to put in to set undef values.
>

for the record the correct behaviour in this case should be
to return "(none)"

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-10-04 15:10:24 UTC

Returning an explicit "(none)" rather than an error message when querying an
unknown tag
using a legacy version of rpm would confuse two distinct problems
	1) rpm does not know about a tag.
	2) the tag does not exist.
which have different solutions (i.e. 1) is fixed by upgrading rpm, 2) is a
packaging or query option problem).