Panu Matilainen (pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: >> It uses a valid release character as a separator between epoch and >> release, > > Mm.. urgh, rpm actually accepts ':' in both version and release strings. And '\0', and ☠, and ⽍, and... >> making parsing without reading the header more 'interesting', >> without knowing which version of RPM created the file. > > Make that "without knowing what kind of configuration was this RPM created > with" or "without knowing if 'mv' was used after package creation. > Remember, the filename has zero guarantee to have any resemblance on the > package contents. The output filename is configurable already, has "always" > been, so the n-v-r.arch.rpm format is just a defacto standard. Sure, but just because it's a de facto rather than de jure standard doesn't make it any better of an idea to change it. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
