Bug 51807

Summary:	Create a tag with a shared cookie
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Peter Bowen <pzbowen+rhbeta>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	1.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2001-08-15 13:19:56 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Peter Bowen 2001-08-15 13:19:52 UTC

It would be nice if there was a "shared cookie" tag for binary RPMS that
would link a binary RPM to its source RPM.  It would be, similar to the
COOKIE tag, but it would be common among the source RPM and all the binary
RPMs built from it.

This would help track RPMs as it currently isn't possible to tell if
foo-1.0-1.alpha.rpm and foo-1.0-1.i386.rpm actually came from the same SRPM
or if someone just happened to give them the same version number.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-08-15 13:26:55 UTC

What's missing is the glue that points the src.rpm to a set of
binary rpm's. This cannot be easily done because
	a) a src.rpm is implicitly noarch, can be produced on any
	machines, even if there are %ifarch subpackages.
	b) src rpm's can be built w/o building packages.
	c) bianary rpm's can be built w/o src rpm's.
cookies have all the above problems.