Fedora and Fedora Legacy package versioning schemes

[Michael Schwendt]

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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:17:14 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:

> > > d) Use tags with something larger than "rh", e.g. "tfp" ("The Fedora
> > >    Project")
> >
> > -500
> > The whole reason why we had those dist tags was because fedora.us (or 
> > freshrpms, or dag, or axel, etc.) were not official repositories.  Now 
> > Fedora is official, so I believe we can drop this ugliness that makes 
> > the package filename unnecessarily longer.
> 
> You are talking about the .fdr. tag, e.g. the repo tag. Drop that by
> all means. I am referring to the disttag like rh9 etc.

Fedora.us was separate from Red Hat [Linux]. And fedora.us could have
offered packages for Mandrake Linux (.mdk), for instance. Hence the
distribution tag to emphasize the target platform.

The .fdr tag and the 0. release prefix should be adapted by 3rd party
repositories. (http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/terminology.html)

- -- 
Michael, who doesn't reply to top posts and complete quotes anymore.

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