Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: rpm should permit a means to add arbitrary tags to packages (#413)

2018-08-21 Thread Jeff Johnson
Closed #413. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/413#event-1800030257___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: rpm should permit a means to add arbitrary tags to packages (#413)

2018-07-12 Thread Jeff Johnson
Depends on the implementation: the existing implementation in RPM5 permits configured arbitrary tags to be used in query formats -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: rpm should permit a means to add arbitrary tags to packages (#413)

2018-07-12 Thread Stephan
Would it be possible to query those tags, via RPM query itself ? Thinking of something like rpm -qp --qf '%{applicationspecifictag}\n' ./application.rpm -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/r

[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: rpm should permit a means to add arbitrary tags to packages (#413)

2018-03-13 Thread Jeff Johnson
The current means to add a tag into rpmtag.h and deploy through a release can take months to accomplish. The necessary time to add a tag to rpm could be shortened to minutes by using the hash of the tag name string (properly canonicalized) within a reserved space (like 0x400 -> 0x7fff).