[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Is it possible for an RPM package to have no version? (Discussion #2896)

[Panu Matilainen]

> Was it ever possible, at any point in the history of RPM, for a RPM package to be created without a version or a release?

No. Absolutely not.

A package with empty or missing name, version, release, arch, os, license or summary tags is simply invalid, and rpm could and should (but apparently doesn't) refuse to install it at all.

That package was either created by a modified rpmbuild (or perhaps more likely), custom-written 3rd party tool.

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