> > > > nope. Just means a user thinks something is from somewhere by looking at > > the filename, not looking at the content or the signature. > > Correct, at the same time people can see when a repository is misleading > people. It's functional as an identifier to select a package or to see > what the origin is in Yum/Apt output. > Again, from a strict principal point of view you're correct. I've said it before and i'll say it again: EPOCH, VERSION AND RELEASE ARE USED IN VERSION COMPARISON! We shouldn't have non-version-comparison data used to compare versions. It's a pollution of the space and a confusion of what they do. If you cannot see how they confuse what is a version issue then you're self-deluding. > Why is that necessary ? Why do you consider the current release field less > useful ? Having a disttag and vendortag in the release tag (and > filename) is _very_ useful. Maybe not to you, but to many others (both in > bugreports or just as an identifier to select packages). I don't care about the filename. The filename is nothing - I care about the garbage getting in fields that I need to use to do version comparison. have .dag. or .fdr. or .fr. since it does not make a claim about the version of the software, only a statement about which repo it came from (and not an authoritative statement at that) is just pollution. > Sorry, Seth, I disagree. I see 'useful' in a less strict sense. I consider > other uses than only the version comparison. And it does not interfere > with that and there's no other harm. > > But then again, if you're talking as the authority repository and don't > see a use in 3rd party repositories, there's no need for a repotag. But > for a complete other reason. I see useful in the specific sense of being one of the people who maintains and works on dependency solvers. >From a cleanliness of programming it'd be a lot nicer to match repo based on gpg signature than based on some arbitrarily-placed string in the release tag. If you want to make the tools better you have to store the data in sane places and don't pollute other fields with it. -sv