Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:15:25 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:57:23 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:58:45 +0100, nodata <fedora at nodata.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > An rpm tool doesn't care about the filename, so why remove it?
> > > 
> > > You have missed the point entirely.   The filaname for an rpm is
> > > typically constructed from a number of header tags as part of the
> > > build process. The distrotags that are being used arent just in the
> > > filename they are in the RELEASE tag.
> > 
> > Which is part of the problem.
> 
> Please indicate where the problem is.

Done that before in this thread.

> The current scheme has the following advantages:
> 
> + It allows people to build trust for packages because the source becomes 
>    visible (this works in both ways, if a package is good or bad)

*gasp*

Please tell me that you just made a joke.

People should _never_ deduce the origin of a package from its
filename.

[They may start to trust the signer of packages and the signed
packages which come from him.]