Re: Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:12:42 +0100, Michael Schwendt
> <fedora wir-sind-cool org> wrote:
> > And then RPM database queries don't reproduce the filename. ;)
> > Confusion again.
> > 
> >   $ sudo rpm -i foo-1.0-1.FC3.zork.i386.rpm
> >   $ rpm -q foo
> >   foo-1.0-1
> > 
> > Dist tag and repo tag are gone. And with them the information
> > about the origin of the package and its target platform.
> 
> As i stated in my first post.... the non-hacky solution would be
> re-evaluate what the default rpm behavior and fix the problem there.

Jeff, there is no problem please don't add to the FUD. I'm sure Fedora 
would be off worse if people could not easily differentiate between 
internal and external packages. Is that what you want ?

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