Re: freshrpms packages w/o repoid?

Axel Thimm wrote :

> I've had a couple of bug reports by now that would claim that ATrpms
> has overlapping packages with Fedora Core and the examples given were
> faac, faad, perhaps even ffmpeg IIRC.
> 
> Of course such packages don't exist in official repos (unless US law
> was changed and I didn't notice ;), and it turns out that these
> packages are freshrpm ones, but are missing any "fr" or "rf" tags.
> 
> Is this on purpose or did the buildsystem mess this up? If it's
> intentional, may I ask why? It creates lots of confusion.

I've dropped the "fr" tag quite a long time ago, and believe it or not,
I have less complaints (like yours) about having introduced confusion
than I used to have about "why do you package only in french?" ;-)

When in doubt, just have users run :
rpm -q --qf '%{packager}\n' packagename

Matthias

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