[Rpm-metadata] tags in .repo files

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Wed Jun 6 10:53:44 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:01 +0200, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 June 2007 10:18:59 Paul Nasrat wrote:
> > You might want to look at modifyrepo and use that in conjunction with
> > your own schema for tags, see the yum security plugin from yum-utils cvs
> > and yum.update_md for an implementation of adding arbitrary metadata.
> >
> > Paul
> 
> Ok, so you suggest we add our own resource type to repomd.xml as we do with 
> patches.xml, patterns.xml and as RedHat does with updateinfo.xml.

I think that'd be the easiest way to handle it in the first instance,
it'd also potentially  allow for external tagging sources to apply to
repos (cf group merging behaviour).

Paul





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