[Yum-devel] Fedora update metadata

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 18:31 -0500, Luke Macken wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 05:53:48PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> | Who wants to define the magical and arbitrary format? any takers? All it
> | needs is something like:
> |  package
> |  distro
> |  version
> |  description of problem
> |  URLS
> |  CVE's resolved
> |  SOME MAGICAL IDENTIFIER
> | 
> | 
> | anything else?
> 
> The Fedora update system currently stores the following [relevant] fields
> for each update:
> 
> 	o update id
> 	o package-version-release
> 	o release: fc{3,4,5}
> 	o testing/final update flag
> 	o bugzilla #'s
> 	o security flag
> 	o embargo date
> 	o advisory notes
> 
> So integration into our update system should be trivial.  We'll only
> need to add a few extra fields (URL's, CVE's, etc).  That should
> probably cover most of it.
> 

I think bugzilla #s are a little too distro-specific so URLs should
cover that for us.

So if we were going from your db into these files we'd just expand out
the bugzilla #s to full urls and stow it in the urls field, I'd think.

-sv