Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:57:23 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> 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.

Which is part of the problem.

> You can have this sort of
> information in the filename without having it in the RELEASE tag.

And then RPM database queries don't reproduce the filename. ;)
Confusion again.

  $ sudo rpm -i foo-1.0-1.FC3.zork.i386.rpm
  $ rpm -q foo
  foo-1.0-1

Dist tag and repo tag are gone. And with them the information
about the origin of the package and its target platform.