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Still mark SRPMS with RPMTAG_SOURCEPACKAGE

Registered by Jeff Johnson on 2010-09-06

     Change: backward-compat-rpmtag-sourcepackage
     Purpose: Still mark SRPMS with RPMTAG_SOURCEPACKAGE
     Reason: For backward compatibility with RPM < 4.4.6
                     (remember: OpenPKG used RPM 4.2.1 until 2008) let
                     RPM 5 still mark SRPMS with RPMTAG_SOURCEPACKAGE.
                     This especially allows OpenPKG to smoothly upgrade
                     the "openpkg" package (which contains RPM) from the
                     RPM 4 to the RPM 5 world order. Without this the
                     upgrade procedure would involve manual "rpm2cpio"
                     plus "rpm -bb" operations.

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Status:: Started

Approver:: Jeff Johnson

Priority:: Medium

Drafter:: None

Direction:: Needs approval

Assignee:: None

Definition:: Review

Series goal:: Accepted for 5.4

Implementation:: Needs Code Review

Milestone target:: None

Started by: Jeff Johnson on 2012-01-13

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See comments at the fedora/mandriva versions of this patch
(which were obsoleted).

The vendor-specific changes for all of fedora/mandriva/openpkg
for RPMTAG_SOURCEPACKAGE are headed for the bit bucket.

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