Re: Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 13:32 -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > Why would you want to distinguish by package release name?
> 
> Well - not exactly the release name - but the repository name 'fe' vs
> 'fr' vs 'dag' etc..
> 
> I guess the functionality would be: list 'all' installed pacakges from
> 'fedora-extras' repository.
> 
> I guess ideally yum could provide this feature (similar to 'yum list
> extras') - but currently its easy to do the following:
> 
> rpm -qa |grep \.fr

Putting the repository name in the release tag is kinda silly.

Now if people want to start using the Vendor tag more usefully.

I'll be glad to include a list option in yum that lists by vendor.

-sv