[Yum-devel] Package update metadata

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Fri Feb 10 06:03:51 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 17:29 -0500, Luke Macken wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:06:39AM -0800, David Lutterkort wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 18:23 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > This seems reasonable, but I thought we had decided that it made sense
> > > to have something like (warning: bad xml :-)
> > >   <update location="updateinfo/httpd-2.0.54.xml">
> > > associated with the package in the primary metadata and only have one
> > > file per "update".  
> > 
> > It's cleaner if the reference from primary package md to update md would
> > include something that's guaranteed to be unique for the update, like
> > the id of the update. It's fine to keep the filename as an additional
> > piece of data, it should just not be the main point of reference.
> 
> I updated the createrepo patch[0] which now adds the following to the
> primary xml metadata when the -U <url> parameter is given:
> 
>   <update id="FEDORA-XXX-XXXX" location="update-info/name-ver-rel.xml"/>
> 
> I hope the changes aren't too hackish, but everything seems to be
> working fine.
> 
> Comments?
> 

That looks fine to me.

Paul, you have any problem with giving luke access to check in code to
createrepo?

-sv





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