[Rpm-metadata] updates

[Joe Shaw]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 03:02, seth vidal wrote:
> 2. produced a sample of the format indexing all of fedora-core-test2 
> (this is a big 4.0M file - becareful if you're on a slow connection)
>  http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/metadata/fedora-core-test2-metadata.xml

This file isn't valid UTF-8. :)  Looks like a couple package
descriptions or summaries are encoded in a non-specified encoding. :)

> Right now I think we have most if not all of the data for the primary
> metadata file. At 320K that's not too bad for a distro the size of
> severn. Is that small enough? Do we need to figure out a way to strip
> some fluff out/off?

320K is fine by me... it's almost exactly the same size as RC's gzipped
RH9 data.  We could drop empty <rpm:obsoletes/> and such tags.

Joe