Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Dag Wieers]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> 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.

Please indicate where the problem is.


> > 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.

Indeed, they should be in the release-tag for this (and many other) 
reasons. As a compromise I once proposed to have them only in the 
filename, because having it only in half of the cases is better than 
having it in none at all.

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