Fedora Extras RPMs should have Vendor and Packager?

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Wed Feb 1 21:29:37 UTC 2006


I just was doing rpm -qi on a few packages, and noticed that packages 
built in Extras don't have a vendor associated with them.

Not that anybody ever really looks at these things, but we should 
probably set up the extras build system so that it prefills the vendor 
pertaining to Fedora somehow.  We might also want to add "Packager"

`rpm -qi` is not that uncommon a task, and it would be subtle 
self-advertising.  Push that brand, push it hard!

Output for a package from Core vs Extras:

% rpm -qi NetworkManager
Name        : NetworkManager               Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 0.5.1                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 8.cvs20060131                 Build Date: Tue 31 Jan 2006 
02:54:22 PM EST
Install Date: Wed 01 Feb 2006 01:10:20 PM EST      Build Host: 
ls20-bc1-13.build.redhat.com
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: 
NetworkManager-0.5.1-8.cvs20060131.src.rpm
Size        : 1035776                          License: GPL
Signature   : (none)
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL         : http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
Summary     : Network connection manager and user applications
Description :
NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available 
at all
times.  It is intended only for the desktop use-case, and is not 
intended for
usage on servers.   The point of NetworkManager is to make networking
configuration and setup as painless and automatic as possible.  If using 
DHCP,
NetworkManager is _intended_ to replace default routes, obtain IP addresses
from a DHCP server, and change nameservers whenever it sees fit.
% rpm -qi NetworkManager-vpnc
Name        : NetworkManager-vpnc          Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 0.5.0                             Vendor: (none)
Release     : 1                             Build Date: Sun 29 Jan 2006 
10:22:36 PM EST
Install Date: Tue 31 Jan 2006 02:16:55 PM EST      Build Host: 
hammer1.fedora.redhat.com
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: 
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.5.0-1.src.rpm
Size        : 124687                           License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Mon 30 Jan 2006 09:51:57 PM EST, Key ID 
82ed95041ac70ce6
Summary     : NetworkManager VPN integration for vpnc
Description :
This package contains software for integrating the vpnc VPN software
with NetworkManager and the GNOME desktop




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