What is id or tag for?

2004-03-11 Thread David M. Fetter
I looked through the online documentation but can't seem to find any reference as to what the id or tag identifies. What does it mean? I noticed when I bootstrapped it on Solaris 8 the tag was dcl, but then when I'm now building it on Solaris 9 the tag changed to ulo. Why is that? Can this tag

Re: What is id or tag for?

2004-03-11 Thread Michael van Elst
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 05:57:39PM +0100, Matthias Kurz wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, David M. Fetter wrote: I looked through the online documentation but can't seem to find any reference as to what the id or tag identifies. What does it mean? I noticed when I bootstrapped it on Solaris

Re: What is id or tag for?

2004-03-11 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, Michael van Elst wrote: I looked through the online documentation but can't seem to find any reference as to what the id or tag identifies. What does it mean? I noticed when I bootstrapped it on Solaris 8 the tag was dcl, but then when I'm now building

Re: What is id or tag for?

2004-03-11 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, Michael van Elst wrote: I looked through the online documentation but can't seem to find any reference as to what the id or tag identifies. What does it mean? I noticed when I bootstrapped it on Solaris 8 the tag

Re: What is id or tag for?

2004-03-11 Thread Matthias Kurz
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, Michael van Elst wrote: I looked through the online documentation but can't seem to find any reference as to what the id or tag identifies. What does it mean? I noticed when I bootstrapped it on Solaris 8

Re: What is id or tag for?

2004-03-11 Thread Thomas Lotterer
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, David M. Fetter wrote: I looked through the online documentation but can't seem to find any reference as to what the id or tag identifies. [...] Most of the mystery was already revealed. You find information in the news.txt [1] and upgrade.txt [2] documents. Search

Re: What is id or tag for?

2004-03-11 Thread David M. Fetter
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 10:00, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: The tag is usually specified during bootstrapping with option --tag but it can be overridden for each package on the rpm --rebuild command line with an option --tag, too. Spectacular! Thanks again. -- David M. Fetter - UNIX Systems