Re: Repotag

[Mike McGrath <mmcgrath redhat com>]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> If I hadn't a repotag, my nagios-packages would be numbered the same as 
> the EPEL packages. Including the same release tag. If people then have 
> problems, nobody could tell from the output whether this was an EPEL, 
> non-EPEL, RPMforge or other package.
>   
I can think of a couple ways to figure this out, none of which are very 
difficult.  Buildhost, vendor, packager, and key signature come to mind.

> This is an EPEL issue, not a Fedora issue. Why could there not be a rule 
> that says Fedora packages do not have a repotag, but EPEL packages will ?
>   
Because its just one more thing to maintain/change/whatever that so far 
has only one supporter.

   -Mike