Thanks Jeff. Please find answers inline.
-Rajul On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Jeff Johnson <n3...@mac.com> wrote: > > On Apr 11, 2016, at 1:25 PM, Rajul Bhavsar wrote: > > Hi, > > We are trying to use rpm 5.1.9 on powerPC architecture. But, we see that > there are issues with basic querying: > > > Hmm why rpm-5.1.9, which was released quite some time ago? > >>>> Yes, its older version. But that is what current version we had. Will > like to move to 5.4.14 in near future and that rpm version performs all > required queries perfectly fine. > > $ rpm -qai > rpm: -qai: unknown option > $ > > > Try a simpler query first: does rpm -qa "work"? > > >>>> Yes, -qa works, but --xml or --yaml do not work along with -qpi. > Also, use of --force give same error in rpm -iv command. > > The -i option is contextually dependent with multiple meanings in rpm > and the processing is painfully complex. Identifying what does and does not > work will be helpful in finding a fix. > > When we try to query custom metadata (implemented using arbitrary tags) > then also it is failing (giving output as *(none)*). We have proper macro > file in /usr/lib/rpm-5.1.9/macros and rpm is referring to it. > > > (from memory of a recent patch from Poky/Yocto) > > The arbitrary tag values are likely in native endian. > Did you build and query both on the same machine, or are you > trying to query a package built on x86_64 on a ppc* machine? > > >>>> rpm files are generated on x86_64 machines but querying it on ppc > machines (arch within rpm is ppc). Inbuilt metadata can be queried using > --qf but not custom metadata. I guessed that endianness should not have > impact rpm metadata content. But, even if it has, then it should give > garbled values and not "(none)" as its result. However, querying custom > metadata works fine in 5.4.14. > > $ rpm --showrc | grep macros > macrofiles : > /usr/lib/rpm-5.1.9/macros:/usr/lib/rpm-5.1.9/ppc-linux/macros:/etc/rpm/5.1.9/macros.*:/etc/rpm/5.1.9/macros:/etc/rpm/5.1.9/ppc-linux/macros:~/.rpmmacros-5.1.9 > $ > > We see that on x86_64 these things work fine. We do not see anything > specific to architecture in the build of rpm, but only difference is that - > host's arch is x86_64. > > Can anybody tell what is peculiar about rpm on powerPC arch? > > > hth > > 73 de Jeff > > Thanks, > Rajul > > >
