Re: yum package name

Maurizio Vitale <[email protected]> writes:

> Another issue with my crosscompilers. I need to have multiple versions
> of these (cross)-gcc installed, hence I've made the version number part
> of the package name (by means of 
> %define _rpmfilename %%{ARCH}/%%{NAME}-%%{release}-%%{ARCH}.rpm).
>
> The rpm comes out ok and, as far as I can tell references in the
> repodata created by createrepo are ok.
> Still yum seems adamant that the name should be
> NAME-VERSION-RELEASE-ARCH.rpm (note the extra VERSION which duplicates
> info already present in the NAME part).
> This is what is displayed in the list of available packages (sans the
> .rpm) and what yum tries to download (without success).
>
> Now, I could clearly make the RPMs conform to yum ideas (with a repeated
> version number), but I was wondering where yum was getting the name
> from and if the package naming was hardwired or not.
>

Sorry for the noise, I keep equating yum with pirut. The above happens
with pirut, yum installs just fine. But this is not a pirut group, so
I'll go away.

     Maurizio