fedora-release: What is system-release-cpe?

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 23:00:35 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:44 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> The F9 fedora-release has a new file:
> 
> echo "cpe://o:fedora_project:fedora:%{version}" >
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/system-release-cpe
> 
> If I ask google, it points be back to the changelog... what is cpe?
> 
> * Thu Mar 13 2008 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> - 8.92-1
> - Update for 9 Beta
> - Update the compose files for 9 Beta
> - Add system-release-cpe (from Mark Cox)
> - Add terminal to issue (#436387)
> - Rename development to rawhide where appropriate.

I'm guessing it has something to do with http://cpe.mitre.org/ .

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