[Yum-devel] [Patch] repoquery tabbed queryformat

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 02:07 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> >
> >> Panu,
> >> 
> >> I noticed '%{name}\t%{repoid}' didn't work:
> >> 
> >> This look good?
> >
> > Thanks, commited. The idea is to have full python string formatting in 
> > queryformat some day so any patches towards that are more than welcome, 
> > although I'd like to get rid of the regexp hackery :-/
> 
> Hum, I'm stupid. Just realized this already works:
> [pmatilai at weasel yum-utils]$ ./repoquery.py --qf "%(name)-40s %(repoid)s" 
> -a|head -5
> a52dec                                   freshrpms
> a52dec-devel                             freshrpms
> advancescan                              freshrpms
> alsaplayer                               freshrpms
> armagetronad                             freshrpms
> 
> However it would be nice to support rpm's way of formatting as well, eg
> 'Version     : %-27{VERSION}       Vendor: %{VENDOR}\n' (from rpm -qi)
> and some other tricks like date conversions, eg
> Build Date: %{BUILDTIME:date}
> 
> ...but that'll need some more sophisticated parsing or funkier regexps.

don't bury yourself too far under this need - I think repoquery is doing
a great job as is and adding too many crazy formatting features isn't
going to help us all that much.

-sv