[Yum-devel] Q: New <origin> attribute in repomd.xml?

[Michael Andres]

On Friday 05 March 2010 13:41:22 Seth Vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Michael Andres wrote:
> Why not use the --distro and --content options to that effect?
>    <tags>
>      <content>head</content>
>      <distro>opensuse</distro>
>    </tags>
>
> they're already there.

It's not really content/distro related. It's more a unique identifier of a 
repo (any kind of repo).

Assume you add a repo from http://foo.bar, then you add http://foomirror.bar. 
Even if they are out of sync we'd like to detect that they actually refer to 
the same repo. Content and distro may change. We're looking for something 
that lasts longer. (like a package name that stays the same, even if the 
content changes). 

It's IMO cleaner to have a dedicated tag for this purpose, than using e.g. a 
<content> entry with a special syntax (like "origin=...").

-- 

cu,
    Michael Andres

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