Re: RPM roadmapping

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai redhat com>]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On 7/27/07, Leszek Matok <Lam lam pl> wrote:
> > - Tell if a given package was installed by hand (rpm -i/U/F) or (if installed
> > by yum/apt/whatever) which repository did it come from. Some people suggested
> > to use "Signature:" for that, but that only tells, which repo this pakage was
> > first published on, and I want to know, where did I get it from in reality.
>
> Like the actual url it was pulled from, regardless of which mirror in
> a dynamicly generated mirrorlist you used in that run?  A
> repository-wide signature/cert referenced in signed repository
> metadata from the repository might be better in some ways than the
> full url to a specific mirror.

Repository signatures would have their uses, but that doesn't really work 
on rpm level. You could have downloaded manually and rpm -Uvh'd into the 
system, there's no trace of the package origins anywhere then. Except the 
package signature which is already recorded in rpmdb.

In other words, I think the package signature is the best indicator of 
package origins you can realistically get.

Making the already existing information more easily accessible and usable 
is another topic :)

	- Panu -