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Richterrettich / rpm-rs

A pure rust library for building and parsing RPM's
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Document rpm layout format specification sources #24

Open drahnr opened 3 years ago

drahnr commented 3 years ago

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

Richterrettich commented 3 years ago

Yes, I'll add some documentation about it.

dralley commented 2 years ago

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"

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/1292#issuecomment-800302305