filelists.xml required?

[Michael Hrivnak]

I'm a developer on Pulp [0], which interacts heavily with yum repo metadata
(both reading and writing it). We have been assuming that a repository must
have a filelists.xml populated with the corresponding list of files for
each rpm. However a user has recently pointed out that repos exist [1] with
an empty "filelists".

Is it valid for "filelists" to be empty? What functionality is lost in that
case?

Thanks,
Michael


[0] http://www.pulpproject.org/
[1] https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/el/7/x86_64
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