Description of problem: ======================= I am running ------------ /bin/rpm --query --queryformat 'ARCH: %{ARCH}\nNAME: %{NAME}\nVERSION: %{VERSION}\nRELEASE: %{RELEASE}\nRHNPLATFORM: %{RHNPLATFORM}\nBUILDTIME: %{BUILDTIME:date}\n' 'a52dec-0.7.4-16.fc17.x86_64' I get the error --------------- error: incorrect format: unknown tag Indeed, the "RHNPLATFORM" tag is unknown on Fedora 17. For usability, I *should* get the error --------------------------------------- error: incorrect format: unknown tag 'RHNPLATFORM' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ============================================================= rpm-4.9.1.3-7.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: ================= Always
No disagreement from usability POV, but this is due to a limitation of the API, not just "forgotten" extra information.
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Moving to rawhide to avoid timeouting.
Fixed upstream as 73674678b2b96a36ec542ec3bc23b227c6129b5f.
Static buffers are bad for business and poison to threads. It should at least use thread local storage if it can't be avoided by other means.