Thanks

But..... you can have reason but i think if there isn't so much feature in
RPM5 for a developer and repo mantainer perhaps there isn't so much interest

in using it. Doesn't it ?

Cheer

On Feb 1, 2008 1:27 AM, Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 31, 2008, at 6:15 PM, devzero2000 wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > I know that it is a forum of development. so sorry in advance.
> >
> >  But as packager I would want to know if it were possible to know
> > the innovationes that RPM 5,0 introduces in greater detail,
> > for example new tag, better dependency resolution, new and useful
> > command-line switches and so on
> >
>
> Likely the most interesting feature for packagers in rpm-5.0.0 is
> "arbitrary tags".
>
> What that means is that you can create you own tags in *.rpm packages.
>
> Add the name of your new tag to this macro
>
> #
> # Colon separated list of permitted arbitrary tag names
> %_arbitrary_tags        Class:Track:Trackprog:Foo:Bar:Baz
>
> Then all that is needed to add the new tag to *.rpm packages
> is to add the tag to a spec file. E.g. with the default configuration
> distributed in rpm-5.0.0, one can add to spec files
>     Foo: some string here
>
> Build the package, and verify that indeed the Foo: tag is present:
>     rpm -qp --qf '%{foo}\n' yourpkg*.rpm
>
> Other than that, package manager "features" are roughly akin
> to the features of rocks and moss, opaque, heavy, and occaisionally
> fuzzy. ;-)
>
>
> >  As an example as far i know the support to the LZMA has been
> > introduced also in RPM 4.4.2 of the RHEL.1 (backported also
> > this ? :=))
> >
>
> LZMA still needs a magic identifier in order to be widely
> deployed. rpm5 will be amongst the first to use LZAM if/when
> LZMA magic exists.
>
> 73 de Jeff
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