[Rpm-metadata] metadata list and discussion over tapas tonight

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Aug 5 16:52:58 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 11:56, Joe Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 08:11, Peter Bowen wrote:
> > These are the main things that I see that Red Carpet uses that are not
> > directly found in RPM headers.  We also have a couple of internal use
> > fields that are essentially opaque data to the client, plus some fields
> > that are duplicated from the rpm headers.  As long as we either allow
> > for extra fields that some clients may not know about, or allow for XML
> > Namespaces, extra data in the XML should not be problematic.
> 
> I agree with everything Peter said.  I would ask that we consider
> keeping around information about older packages, at a minimum so we can
> determine importance, but more importantly for a downgrade or rollback
> situation.  Keeping around all that info might bloat things quite a bit,
> though, maybe we could keep it in a separate file?  I'm not sure.
> 

Do you mean older packages that aren't on the repository?

So if I've removed foo-1.1-1.noarch.rpm and replaced it with
foo-1.1-2.noarch.rpm you want to keep the info on foo-1.1-1?

or do you mean if I've just added foo-1.1-2 w/o deleting foo-1.1-1 then
have both sets of information?

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