[Rpm-metadata] Minor patch for createrepo (to allow .deb indexing)

Oliver Falk oliver at linux-kernel.at
Tue Nov 6 17:48:12 UTC 2007


seth vidal schrieb:
> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 18:03 +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
>> Javier Palacios schrieb:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm working on a version of createrepo/yum able to work with debian packages.
>>> The first change required is to search for .deb files instead of .rpm
>>> extensions.
>>> The patch I submit just replaces the explicit '.rpm' strings with a
>>> variable so there is a single point to modify if we search for diffent
>>> extensions.
>> Sounds like a good idea, but is createrepo able to really >index< .deb
>> files; I mean getting name, version, release, description, ... from the
>> pkgs?
>>
> 
> not as-is but I guess it could be made to be.

kk. Just wanted to now if this piece of code is somewhere/-what hidden 
where I had no look at yet :-)

thx,
  -of



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