[lsb-discuss] RPM group tags: what should the spec say about them?

Jeff Licquia jeff at licquia.org
Mon Sep 8 12:14:17 PDT 2008


This is a bug we discussed today on the big bug review:

http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1196

Basically, we specify RPMTAG_GROUP, but don't say what values are 
allowable.  Each distribution seems to have its own group list, with 
little overlap.  Upstream rpm has a canonical list, but distros that 
aren't Red Hat don't seem to follow that list.  And it seems that a 
legal package must specify a group.

We need to give better guidance here.  What should we say?


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