Bug 3008 - rpm returns undef when it should probably return (none) for unknown fields
Summary: rpm returns undef when it should probably return (none) for unknown fields
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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Reported: 1999-05-24 17:49 UTC by jauderho
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-08-30 23:28:48 UTC

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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).
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