On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:57:23 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:58:45 +0100, nodata <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.