Re: Repo information inside rpm?

Dag Wieers <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:00:55 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.atrpms.repo-coordination
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On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
> > 
> > I am sitting here thinking it would be extremely useful to have some repo
> > information stored in the RPM header. I have my eyes on the Distribution tag
> 
> IMO, if you're going to pack this in the RPM using an existing tag, a better
> target would be the
> Packager:
> tag.

Well, I think Morten's reasons for doing this is that the Distribution tag 
is not displayed in the rpm -qi output. And that's what I probably want 
too if the decision is to not have it human readable :)

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