[Rpm-metadata] xml update

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at welho.com
Thu Oct 16 09:50:50 UTC 2003


Quoting seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>:

> Ok,
>   I tried just doing a mock up from what I mentioned last night.
> 
> so a file might look something like this:
> http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/metadata/rpm-metadata3.xml
> 
> let me know if that fits for most folks, if so - I'll write the code for
> the rpm side and we can work on defining the file list file and the misc
> file formats.

Hmm, why are packager and group considered rpm-specific? Those exist in .deb's
too ("maintainer" and "section"). Also I think the dependency information isn't
really format specific, apart from stuff like rpm doesn't have "suggests" or
priority.

Sorry if this has been already discussed to death, I haven't followed the
discussion here too closely simply because lack of time :(

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    - Panu -



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