Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 02:09:10 +0200, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:

> On 2004-12-16 (Thursday) 22:23, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:10:52 -0500, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> > > I find it *incredibly* useful for this information to be in the filename.
> > 
> > if its a useful thing to have in the filename.... then the vendor tag
> > needs to become a standard part of the filename, instead of pushing
> > more and more and more information into the same tag field.
> 
>   +1, but "Vendor: Dag Apt Repository, http://dag.wieers.com/apt/" is
> quite big to be in the filename, for example 'dag' is quite better.
> Ex: autossh-1.2-1.f.0.rh9.dag.i386.rpm - name-ver.DIST.REPO.ARCH.rpm

Still it's included in RPM version comparison, which is far from
ideal, as there is no good reason why

  foo-1.0-1.fc3.zork.i386.rpm

should be treated as newer than:

  foo-1.0-1.fc3.dag.i386.rpm

Preferably, the "repo" tag would be part of the filename, but not part
of the package release version.