From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 Description of problem: The description of the XFree86 package says the video hardware drivers are not part of that package. This was true for XFree86 3.x, but with 4.x, the driver modules ARE in the XFree86 package. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -qi XFree86 ;) Actual Results: Incorrect information showed up. Expected Results: Correct information should have been displayed. ;) Additional info:
I believe in Red Hat Linux 7.2 this is fixed. The descriptions that show up actually come from the specspo package. I'll leave this open though until it is confirmed properly on a fresh 7.2 install. I'll also copy the specspo descriptions to the specfile for consistency if they aren't already.
It is not fixed in 7.2, the XFree86-4.1.0 package still has the same description as in Red Hat 7.1.
Do you have the specspo package installed? If not, could you install it, and let me know if the descriptions change? Either way, there does seem to be a problem that should be fixed. Your input will be helpful, thanks.
The description changes when I install specspo. I think it is a bit unintuitive that package descriptions change when another package (specspo) is installed, but who am I to complain.
The definitive descriptions of the packages are the ones stored in specspo. rpm uses them for internationalization, but we also use them to store our master descriptions too. WHile we try to keep the in-package descriptions also up to date, it can often be quite a mess to manage. We've considered removing the descriptions from the spec files entirely and requiring specspo be installed also. That has varios bad drawbacks as well. I'm sure we'll come up with some ubercool automated solution at some point in the future, but for now it's hunker down and tough it out the hard way. ;o) I'll try to make sure all XFree86 descriptions match both in specspo and in the distro for the next official distro release.
Fixed in Red Hat Linux 7.3