[lug] need a way to compare capabilities of arbitrarily different rpm-based distributions

[Sean Reifschneider]

How about, for every package in your distribution, doing:

   rpm -qp --qf '%{name}\n' "$RPMFILE"

For example:

   guin:jafo$ rpm -qp --qf '%{name}\n' /tmp/python-imaging-devel-1.0-6.i386.rpm
   python-imaging-devel

So, from that you can get the name and only the name.  See the
"queryformat" section of the RPM man page for more information.

Sean
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