Tangent: recording upstream scm locations and contact info

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Fri Oct 10 15:26:57 UTC 2008


On Friday 10 October 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 04:46 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 19:55 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > > Does storing the information in packagedb have some compelling benefit
> > > that compensates for dealing with these hassles by other means?
> >
> > It means that you don't have to muck through rpm's code in order to add
> > a tag that will cause older/other versions of rpm to puke.
>
> Adding tags actually doesn't make older versions of rpm puke, it just
> ignores them

rpmbuild on the other hand is pickier than that.

$ echo "Foo: bar" > foo.spec
$ rpmbuild -bb foo.spec
error: line 1: Unknown tag: Foo: bar




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