RE: Repotag
Mike McGrath wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
> If I hadn't a repotag, my nagios-packages would be numbered the same
as
> the EPEL packages. Including the same release tag. If people
then
have
> problems, nobody could tell from the output whether this was an
EPEL,
> non-EPEL, RPMforge or other package.
>
I can think of a couple ways to figure this out, none of which are
very
difficult. Buildhost, vendor, packager, and key signature come to
mind.
What about if you don't have the package installed? If you have a
failed 'yum upgrade' and are trying to figure out what's happening you
only see the name/arch/epoch/version/release while it's resolving
dependancies and if Dag takes away the repotag, using his example, 'yum
list nagios' would show that 2 versions of nagios named identically are
available.
> This is an EPEL issue, not a Fedora issue. Why could there not
be a
rule
> that says Fedora packages do not have a repotag, but EPEL
packages
will
?
>
Because its just one more thing to maintain/change/whatever that so
far
has only one supporter.
You can add me as a supporter even just for the reason of keeping Dag
happy. If you want everyone to work together (Dag, ATrpms, CentOS,
EPEL) then respecting each others concerns is a good start. Adding
%{repotag} is really not that big of a deal, is it?
Greg