[Rpm-metadata] Architecture support
Jeff Licquia
licquia at progeny.com
Fri Dec 5 16:36:35 UTC 2003
Catching up after a bit of busyness on other fronts. Everything looks good.
I did have a thought regarding repomd.xml that I thought would be good
to bring up. Sorry if this is a little late to bring up; it's not
critical, but would be nice.
In apt, you can set up repositories such that the reference in
sources.list is not architecture-specific. This is possible because apt
does some interpretation of the fields in sources.list and builds URIs
from them using a standard algorithm.
Obviously, such a scheme can't be built into the rpm-metadata stuff.
But we could allow for an architecture attribute on the metadata node,
something like this:
<metadata arch="i386">
<data type="primary"/>
<data type="filelist"/>
<data type="other"/>
<data type="groups"/>
</metadata>
<metadata arch="powerpc">
<data type="primary"/>
<data type="filelist"/>
<data type="other"/>
<data type="groups"/>
</metadata>
The attribute could be optional, in which case it's assumed that the
repository is correct.
What does everyone think of this?
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