Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
What about simply utilizing a previously unused rpm-tag to directly determine via the rpm-header where a package came from? Then we do not need to parse the whole history just for this purpose! I have had a look at all header entries and have found a promising up to now unused candidate: RPMTAG_SOURCE
For the future RPMTAG_SOURCE could carry the Buildservice-URL a package is provided via. SOURCE = http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Community/openSUSE_11.1
RPMTAG_DISTRIBUTION could then no longer be complicated with the info already present in RPMTAG_ARCH, but extended with a hint like Buildservice/Core:
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