[Fedora-packaging] RPM builds and Vendor tag

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Thu Feb 4 17:38:49 UTC 2010


Greg_Wilson at aotx.uscourts.gov wrote:
> I'm looking for some direction on using the vendor tag in RPMs that my
> organization is re-rolling.
>
> From: Maximum RPM: Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit
>
>
> The vendor Tag
>
>
> The vendor tag is used to define the name of the entity that is responsible
> for packaging the software. Normally, this would be the name of an
> organization. Here's an example:
>                                                                             
>  Vendor: White Socks Software, Inc.                                         
>                                                                             
>                                                                             
>
>
> My question is, that if I simple re-roll the RPM to change the dist tag (no
> spec file changes or install changes); should I also change the vendor tag
> to my organization?
>
>
>
> Greg Wilson
> Information Technology Specialist
> Systems Deployment and Support Division
>
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If it's for internal use, do whatever you like, really.  If it's for 
Fedora, we don't set it in the spec, it's set by the build system.


https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#rpmlint

-J

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