[Rpm-metadata] createrepo 0.4.3

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Thu Jul 14 12:27:42 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 02:47 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 02:45 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > hi folks,
> >  I just released createrepo 0.4.3 - it includes the cachedir option and
> > I mostly included it for work regarding the fedora extras buildsys.
> > However, it should help a lot of people speed up their metadata
> > generation. The next big change will be 0.5.0 which should include an
> > array of new items.
> > 
> > Some ideas:
> >  - querying and xmlrpc server for non-changelog update information
> > (errata notes)
> >  - possible: specifying the file globs used for determining what files
> > get added to primary.xml or not
> >  - possible: multiple runs over the metadata to help fill out the
> > metadata
> >  - removable media ideas and handling
> >  - other ideas?
> > 
> 
> oh and 0.4.3 is available at:
> 
> http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/generate/
> 

Thanks should hit rawhide shortly (today/tomorrow).

Paul





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