Repotag
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at redhat.com
Thu Mar 15 13:36:26 UTC 2007
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.
> 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.
-Mike
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