Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:58:45 +0100, nodata <fedora at nodata.co.uk> wrote:
> An rpm tool doesn't care about the filename, so why remove it?

You have missed the point entirely.   The filaname for an rpm is
typically constructed from a number of header tags as part of the
build process. The distrotags that are being used arent just in the
filename they are in the RELEASE tag. You can have this sort of
information in the filename without having it in the RELEASE tag.
Maybe you don't understand, the rpm tool does care about what is in
the RELEASE tag, because the release tag is used during version
comparisons when you want to decide what is newer or older for
updates.

-jef