Start gnorpm, select preferences -> distributions. Distribution settings (at least as listed) are unaware of platform and distro release, and include 6.1, pwertools, CPAN, what have you. Numeric rating field is pure mechanism, providing insufficient policy to sort the myriad sources of sources. I'd suggest a list of generated per-arch regex's, numeric rating collapsed into order of supplied regex's, 1st regex *always* being essentially config.guess output. One might consider separate container classes for 1) Raw Hide, Cooker, etc (i.e. bleeding edge) 2) Distros 3) Powertools vs (what Mandrake calls it) 4) CPAN and the ability to configurably extend the container classes. Rationale is that mix-n-match sources for rpm downloads is increasingly a crap shoot between distro's and even between releases, so the goal should be less far and wide discovery of candidates, rather more targeted information delivery to user.
This is an rpmfind issue not a gnorpm one. It may well go away when/if gnorpm switches to using rpm-apt as its basis
I moved this to the gnome bugzilla so that the Gnorpm maintainers will see it. The bug is now at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58174