[Yum-devel] Re: errata/update notice parsing/handling

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 02:30 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 02:01 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> >  See attached update_md.py and errata.xml
> > 
> > I made one change of adding a title element to the update object.
>
> okay - so maybe title is a dumb idea.
> 
> After talking about it with luke some  - I think we don't need a title
> as a human-readable way of uniquely identifying the packages.
> 
> in many update notices it is the n-v-r of the srpm that made the
> packages in the update. But what about errata that impact more than one
> srpm? Do we have those? Shouldn't we be prepared for those in any event?

We definitely should be prepared for them.  I can see in the future
something more consumer oriented where you just want to have "Core
Operating System Update" that includes all of glibc, kernel, etc without
having the user worry about the details.  

So given that, I think the title is incredibly useful

Jeremy