On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:57:23 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:58:45 +0100, nodata <fedora(a)nodata.co.uk> wrote:
> > An rpm tool doesn't care about the filename, so why remove it?
>
> You have missed the point entirely. The filaname for an rpm is
> typically constructed from a number of header tags as part of the
> build process. The distrotags that are being used arent just in the
> filename they are in the RELEASE tag.
Which is part of the problem.
Please indicate where the problem is.
> You can have this sort of
> information in the filename without having it in the RELEASE tag.
And then RPM database queries don't reproduce the filename. ;)
Confusion again.
$ sudo rpm -i foo-1.0-1.FC3.zork.i386.rpm
$ rpm -q foo
foo-1.0-1
Dist tag and repo tag are gone. And with them the information
about the origin of the package and its target platform.
Indeed, they should be in the release-tag for this (and many other)
reasons. As a compromise I once proposed to have them only in the
filename, because having it only in half of the cases is better than
having it in none at all.
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