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Document rpm layout format specification sources #24

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drahnr opened this issue Aug 20, 2020 · 2 comments

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drahnr commented Aug 20, 2020

It would make sense to publicly state which implementation we follow, to make sure impl details are not arbitrary (besides "it works").
https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.1.1/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/pkgformat.html
https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/argh-pm.html
http://ftp.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-file-format-rpm-file-format.html

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Richterrettich commented Aug 21, 2020

Yes, I'll add some documentation about it.

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dralley commented Nov 21, 2021

https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.1.1/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/pkgformat.html

Note that "no rpm version from the last 20 years produces output that is actually compatible with LSB"

rpm-software-management/rpm#1292 (comment)

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