[Rpm-metadata] items

Peter Bowen pzb at ximian.com
Fri Aug 8 14:50:44 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 00:43, seth vidal wrote:
> rough layout of items:
> 
> package:
>    name
>    epoch
>    ver
>    rel
>    arch
>    summary
>    description
>    relative-path-to-realrpm

I think that this should also allow a full URL.

>    filesize
>    archivesize
>    group
>    depends
>    provides
>    conflicts
>    Packager
>    License
>    BuildHost
>    Vendor
>    URL
>    obsoletes?

Yeah it should have obsoletes

> 
> Does that seem workable as the set of items to be in the xml file
> storing most of the useful metadata?

Those all look good, but I would also consider adding a field for update
description/reason (e.g. errata number, etc).

Thanks.
Peter




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