Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:24:44 -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote:

> >   $ 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.
> 
> Sigh.  It isn't gone.  Are you saying that the size and MD5 sum and 
> description and install date are "gone" too?

Where are description and install date in the filename?

MD5 sum is somewhere in the RPM header. So are vendor and packager
fields. And additional information belongs in there, too.