[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RPM -V lacks support for place holder packages or wildcards (#451)

[Panu Matilainen]

It is actually supported but the syntax is not well known. For the name-based wildcard matching, try this:

```rpm -Va name="kernel*"```

It also works with query, and with more or less any tag, eg: ```rpm -qa arch=i686```, or ```rpm -qa summary='*kernel*'```. Etc.

It probably needs better documentation though... and perhaps we could autodetect wildcard usage and default to name, so leaving open for the time being.

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