[Yum-devel] Package update metadata

[Luke Macken]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:06:39AM -0800, David Lutterkort wrote:
> 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.

I updated the createrepo patch[0] which now adds the following to the
primary xml metadata when the -U <url> parameter is given:

  <update id="FEDORA-XXX-XXXX" location="update-info/name-ver-rel.xml"/>

I hope the changes aren't too hackish, but everything seems to be
working fine.

Comments?


luke

[0]: http://people.redhat.com/lmacken/metadata/createrepo-updatemd.patch