Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 189930
RPM has a very low iq
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:31 EST
(I hope this is the correct place to report a bug in RPM, even if I use a SUSE Linux system ;-) - I was asked to report this upstream.) Description of problem: # rpm -qi rpm Name : rpm Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 4.4.2 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany [...] So far, everything works as expected. But... # rpm -iq rpm rpm-4.4.2-37 ... it seems RPM has a very low IQ ;-) and fails if the parameter order changed. I would expect the verbose -i output here also. It seems not all parameters fail with changed order, for example both "rpm -qf file" and "rpm -fq file" work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.4.2-37 - SUSE Linux 10.1 RC 2 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run rpm -iq rpm (or any other packagename) 2. that's it already ;-) Actual results: only prints package name and version like rpm -q rpm Expected results: verbose package information like rpm -qi rpm
I hope you're kidding. The "-i" option to rpm is the "install" option.
RPM has major modes eg ('i' install, 'q' query, rpmbuild 'b' build) some of those take additional mode information - such as -qi (info), -qf (queryfile), -bp (build and exit after %prep).
For hysterical reasons, there are 3 uses of -i in rpm: 1) --install, -i as a major mode 2) --info,-i as a modifier for the query -qi 3) -i for build mode -bi Both 2) and 3) are implemented as a single dash long option, as if "-qi" or "-bi" were invoked as "--qi" or "--bi" where the order of the letters is not permutable.