[Yum-devel] Package update metadata

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Jan 30 22:32:35 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 09:06 -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.

Sure, I can be pretty flexible on what the actual key is

Jeremy




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