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@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. 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. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]