Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[nodata]

On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 23:10 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, nodata <fedora at nodata.co.uk> said:
> > If I download an rpm from anywhere and install it, I keep a copy of it.
> > Later, if I want to use any of the standard *nix commands to deal with
> > those rpms, I can do. For example, an ls *.dag.* shows me dag's rpms.
> 
> So put RPMs you get from Dag in a subdirectory (maybe even called
> "dag").  Or, if he used "dag" as his Vendor field:
> 
> rpm -q --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm %{vendor}\n' -p *.rpm | grep " dag$"
> 
> You could even put:
> 
> rpm alias --vendor --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm %{vendor}\n'
> 
> in your ~/.popt and just do:
> 
> rpm -q --vendor -p *.rpm | grep " dag$"
> 
> > Not having an important piece of information like "where the rpm came
> > from" immediately seems a bit silly.
> 
> Trying to put every bit of information someone may want about an RPM
> into the filename seems a bit silly.

Yep. Which is why the changelog, the author, the build date, the group,
the source, the size, the license, the signature, the summary and the
description aren't in the filename.

An rpm tool doesn't care about the filename, so why remove it?


> 
> -- 
> Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
>