[Rpm-metadata] primary refinement

Jeff Johnson n3npq at nc.rr.com
Mon Feb 7 07:36:36 UTC 2005


seth vidal wrote:

>So i'm looking at primary.xml.gz and I'm thinking of useful ways of
>refining the data included a bit so it's a bit lighter to read in.
>
>I was thinking what do y'all think of moving the following fields to a
>different xml file in the repository?
>
>summary
>

This might be useful for browsing and orienting within the xml, also 
useful for
spiffy detailed progress, as in anaconda. OTOH, if not C locale only,
lose summary as fast as possible.

>description
>packager
>license
>vendor
>group
>url (url for the package, not url location of the rpm)
>buildhost
>  
>
None of these have much use for depsolvers at all.

73 de Jeff




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