Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:27:57 -0500, John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I agree with Dag here, at the moment if one tries to compare packages
> > between two distinctly different distributions the comparison is
> > meaningless. 
> 
> Fine... so take any distro branding out of any rpm tags that actually
> are part of a comparative process.  If its meaningless to compare the
> distrotags as part of the epoch,version,release process don't confuse
> the process by overloading those tags with extra meaningless meaning.

Jeff, give an example where it confuses the version comparison or shut up.

And don't give an example where it does not matter anyway because the 
outcome is irrelevant (see the thread for such an example).


> > That fact however does not diminish the usefulness of having the
> > distribution name encoded in the rpm name for the benefit of human
> > beings. 
> 
> That's fine.... if its generally recognized as important... lets stop
> using it as a hack and change rpm build behavior to include a new tag
> in the filename meant explicitly to give human readable origin
> information that is not used in release number comparisons.

Jeff, I know you think as Fedora as only development. But breaking RPM 
compatibility for something that does not make a difference is pretty 
silly.

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