[Yum] Patches hosted on YUM repository

Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett dmacvicar at suse.de
Thu Sep 11 15:16:07 UTC 2008


Amit Laxmikant Pande wrote:
>
> Can we move (or copy,for that matter) this patch category (security, 
> recommended, optional) information in the patches.xml only so that by 
> parsing just one XML file I can get what I want within a quick time ?
>
>
>
> Is there any subtle reason for not doing this so far ?
>
> Any feedback on the same is welcome.
>

pathches.xml is the Code10 format for SUSE/Novell. Code11 will use the 
updateinfo.xml Fedora also uses.

For that matter you can just split the patches.xml in 3 separate 
patches-foo.xml, patches-security.xml etc. Or?

Duncan



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