When both options specified, the user formatted output is sorted as expected, but it is preceded with output as if standalone --last was specified, which is rather counter-productive (think a script wants both custom formatting and the install-time descending order). AFAIK not specifying --last does not guarantee any order, at least not promised in the man page, not sure if it should do so. In other words, --last and --queryformat should be "combinative" (cooperate on the common product), not "solo players" as is the case now: $ rpm -q --queryformat="%{V}-%{R}\n" -- kernel > 3.14.5-200.fc20 > 3.14.8-200.fc20 > 3.14.9-200.fc20 $ rpm -q --last -- kernel > kernel-3.14.9-200.fc20.x86_64 Thu 03 Jul 2014 04:09:19 PM CEST > kernel-3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_64 Tue 24 Jun 2014 01:35:01 PM CEST > kernel-3.14.5-200.fc20.x86_64 Mon 09 Jun 2014 03:30:55 PM CEST happens, not expected: $ rpm -q --last --queryformat="%{V}-%{R}\n" -- kernel > kernel-3.14.9-200.fc20.x86_64 Thu 03 Jul 2014 04:09:19 PM CEST > kernel-3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_64 Tue 24 Jun 2014 01:35:01 PM CEST > kernel-3.14.5-200.fc20.x86_64 Mon 09 Jun 2014 03:30:55 PM CEST > 3.14.9-200.fc20............................... > 3.14.8-200.fc20............................... > 3.14.5-200.fc20............................... [note: the trailing dots are just to emphasize un{needed,wanted} trailing spaces being produced (!)] should happen: $ rpm -q --last --queryformat="%{V}-%{R}\n" -- kernel > 3.14.9-200.fc20 > 3.14.8-200.fc20 > 3.14.5-200.fc20 Tested with: rpm-4.11.2-2.fc20.x86_64 rpm-4.8.0-37.el6.x86_64
This is "expected", --last is implemented as a funky popt alias which is a queryformat of its own, and each specified queryformat produces separate output, they dont "stack": rpm alias --last --qf '%|INSTALLTIME?{%{INSTALLTIME}}:{000000000}| %{NVRA} %|INSTALLTIME?{%{INSTALLTIME:date}}:{(not installed)}|\n' \ --pipe "sort -r -n | sed 's,^[0-9]\+ ,,' | awk '{printf(\"%-45s %-s\n\", $1, substr($0,length($1)+2))}' " \ --POPTdesc=$"list package(s) by install time, most recent first" This isn't fixable as things are, rpm would need to sort internally for that. Which seems like a fairly reasonable thing... so we could turn this into an RFE for query output sorting.
Understood, let's consider it as a future feature, then.
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