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Asked: 2012-10-19 08:25:19 +0800 CST

Creating Fedora RPMs with a defined Vendor

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I would like all of my organizations RPMs to have a vendor defined so we can easily see which of our RPMs are installed. Does anyone know why Fedora says:

Do not use these tags:
Packager
Vendor
Copyright

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package

They give no reasoning at all.

If not using "Vendor" are there recommendations as to another method that is commonly used for this purpose?

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2 Answers

  1. This has to do with RPMs generally.

    http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Specfile_guidelines Has good details, but....

    • Packager Best used if your RPMs are never, ever going to be repackaged by anyone.
    • Vendor Frequently auto-set by build systems (so it may be good in your case).
    • Copyright Deprecated in favor of the License tag.
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  2. The Packager tag discouragement is poorly worded--I think the intent would be clearer something like this: "Don't hard-code your name in the Packager field in the RPM specfile. The rpmbuild tool will fill it in from the macro, if defined." Where macro can be defined like this:

    rpmbuild --define "packager $USER@$HOSTNAME" | grep -i packager

-8: packager    [email protected]
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