Re: adding different compression types to createrepo

On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 18:00 +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:

>   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.

You should probably talk to your manager about your copyright assignment
and ownership of the code you write while working for red hat. I think
it'll become clear in no time at all.


>   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. 

okay.

> 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.

The myriad of forks of rpm don't help that matter at all.

If you want to bring up the discussion of rpm vs rpm5 in fedora and/or
rhel, you're welcome to - but you should know you'll be in for a hell of
a fight.

-sv