rpm groups and fedora: a modest proposal

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Wed May 26 20:05:36 UTC 2004


--On Wednesday, May 26, 2004 11:15 AM -0400 Brad Smith <brads at redhat.com> 
wrote:

> But the guts of rpm's machinery is not something I'm familiar with
> enough to comment much more than that.

One approach would be to recycle the Groups field and treat the slashes as 
keyword separators. Legacy packages would in effect have two keywords 
already defined. (I'd need to double-check that the Groups field in the 
header works this way, but I suspect it's just free-form text.)






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