On 02/21/12 04:39 PM, Shawn Walker wrote:
On 02/20/12 15:09, Danek Duvall wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:

I'd also like to suggest we have pkg.vendor to easily identify the
company that produced the package easily (e.g. set name=pkg.vendor
value=Oracle).

Alternative suggestions welcomed.  Liane thought I should add this or an
equivalent as part of this proposal.

It came up recently with appcert(1) where it would have been nice to be
able to reliably identify Oracle-provided packages based on metadata.

That'd be checking the signature of a package, and ensuring it was one that Oracle had actually published, as opposed to checking the value of an attribute though, right?

All a user has to do is republish a package locally, perhaps to add additional files, and the "pkg.vendor" attribute becomes meaningless (or at least a bit hazy, because who knows what an end-user has actually done to the package?)

        cheers,
                        tim
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