[Yum-devel] Package update metadata

[David Lutterkort]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 18:23 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> This seems reasonable, but I thought we had decided that it made sense
> to have something like (warning: bad xml :-)
>   <update location="updateinfo/httpd-2.0.54.xml">
> associated with the package in the primary metadata and only have one
> file per "update".  

It's cleaner if the reference from primary package md to update md would
include something that's guaranteed to be unique for the update, like
the id of the update. It's fine to keep the filename as an additional
piece of data, it should just not be the main point of reference.

David