Bug reporting URL field in packages

[James Antill]

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 10:43 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 19:59 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > Well in that case rpm is the wrong place entirely, and ditto for respins 
> > controlling their own bug report URLs. For these you'd want the bug 
> > reporting URL in repodata instead: spins are creating their own 
> > repositories so they can set it there, and regenerating the repodata to 
> > include a new url is cheaper than rebuilding all the packages. 
> 
> Yeah, if you always keep track of which packages you installed from
> which repos and thus which bug system that particular package you
> installed goes to.  (think of famous 3rd party repos that replace
> packages from us)

 Yum already keeps track of that:

# yum list installed yum\*
Installed Packages
yum.noarch                              3.2.24-9.fc12                 @rawhide
yum-metadata-parser.x86_64              1.1.2-12.fc11                 @fedora 
yum-plugin-aliases.noarch               1.1.22-1.fc11                 @updates
yum-plugin-security.noarch              1.1.22-1.fc11                 @updates
yum-presto.noarch                       0.5.0-1.fc11                  @updates
yum-utils.noarch                        1.1.22-1.fc11                 @updates
yumex.noarch                            2.0.5-6.fc11                  @fedora 

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