Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, seth vidal wrote:

> > And you know what, if the repo-tag was not included it would be even worse 
> > for RPM tools as there would be no distinctive identifier to indicate 
> > which one it should take. At least now you can specify based on that.
> 
> as it is the few-letter tag in the release tag is not distinctive and
> not helpful.

How would you distinct

>   foo-1.0-1.fc3.zork.i386.rpm                                                                           
>   foo-1.0-1.fc3.dag.i386.rpm  

if both zork and dag were ommitted ? You don't think it's useful, I think 
it helps.

If you use different repositories and there's no coordination, there's no 
proper way to compare the release tags anyway. The discussion about either 
the disttag or the vendortag are useless.


> It's, at best, an easy false positive match and it reduces
> available namespace for items usable in the release tag.

"It reduces available namespace for items usable in the release tag" ??

Can't compute, please elaborate.

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