[Rpm-metadata] up2date support for metadata repo format?

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 09:56 +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is anyone working on up2date support for the new metadata format?
> 
> I see a "rpmmd" repository thing in the up2date sources, but that
> doesn't work (Python tracebacks - I'm trying with Fedora Core 2's
> version of up2date) and I'm not sure if this "rpmmd" is intended 
> to support the metadata format or not.
> 
> Due to the problems up2date has with both yum and apt repositories
> (yum: size info missing when selecting packages, apt: file info
> missing, so the check incorrectly reports directory conflicts),
> this would be very nice to have.

Yes, Adrian implemented a working mechanism for using the new metadata.
Last time I checked he was using the modules I wrote for importing.


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