On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:41:37PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > the distag is a hack... used to abuse the rpm tagging structures... to > incorporate information into the default rpm -q output that was not > really intended to be there by default. > VENDOR tag does exist and it should be used for this information. > rpm -q ---qf exists to get access to tag strings. > rpm --querytags to get a list of tags to use I find it *incredibly* useful for this information to be in the filename. It may not have been intended and it may be a hack, but that doesn't mean it's _bad_. It's also good for the vendor tag to be correct, of course, but gah, currently that's a cesspool rivaled only by the mess that is "Group:". -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>