[Yum-devel] [Patch] repoquery tabbed queryformat

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 19:47 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 14:41 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 02:07 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> They turned out to be quite easy actually :) This works now with
> cvs-head version:
> 

remember: easy doesn't always mean maintainable.

At some point the flexibility of repoquery will just end up being a pain
in the arse to you - just ask the popt authors. :)

-sv