Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Dag Wieers wrote:

>>The "Distribution" field would contain "Fedora Core 3" for all FC3
>>packages and "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3" for all RHEL3 packages.
>>You use that field already, too. 
>>    
>>
>
>But then you ignore the fact that lots of people want the disttag to give 
>them a recognisable identifier in the filename and package info (EVR).
>  
>

"the fact" ?
 "lots of people" ?


i would say:

1)
a user will package "foo" and not
"foo-dag",  "foo-fdr"  or  "foo-fr"
with all the dependencies on this hacked release-tag.
eg.
"bar-dag",  "bar-fdr",  "bar-fr"

2)
and a user will update "foo" to a new release without problems with 
several repositories.

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shrek-m