Vendor and Packager for merged Fedora

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Mar 15 13:51:50 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 09:20 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Vendor and Packager tags in the rpms that are currently in Core have:
> 
> Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> 
> and during build, _host is set to <arch>-redhat-linux
> 
> Extras has:
> 
> Vendor: Fedora Project
> Packager    : Fedora Project <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> 

I think this one makes sense for all pkgs


> and I'm not sure what _host is set to during build.
> 
> These are all things configurable with Koji.  In the merged world, does 
> anybody have objections to using what Extras does now for Vendor and 
> Packager?
> 
> I'm not sure what all _host is uses for, but I know there are some package (I 
> think mozilla/firefox) that care about it, and I'm reluctant to change what 
> it is set for internally right now.

I would say leave it for now and change it as the first thing we do for
f8/rawhide once f7 is out.

-sv






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