Re: adding different compression types to createrepo

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:12:52AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 09:05 -0600, Matthew Dawkins wrote:
> > To rpm5??? which is another progressive project that we support and
> > would like to see better supported with createrepo. 
> > 
> 
> rpm5 is a fork and one I do not and will not be supporting anytime soon.

  From an historical perspective and with my 15+ years of free software/
open source background, Seth, I do think rpm5 is the original trunk and
rpm the fork. The ownership of the brand goes, at least moraly, to the
person who does the work and not to the entity who paid for it in my
opinion (but being a developper I'm certainly biased). This bites many
many people, unfortunately.

> I want nothing to do with it and that's really the end of the
> discussion, imo.

  Hum, I'm probably one of the people with the most long term interest
in rpm tools and metadata, after all rpmfind[.net] is 13 years old now,
but the tone and some of the further comments on this threads indicates
it's time for me to unsubscribe. Tools are good now, and yum is a large
part of it, but the current situation on cross-distro work is far from
ideal and I don't see that improving at this point.

Daniel

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