[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:
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> 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 ?
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> Is there any subtle reason for not doing this so far ?
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> Any feedback on the same is welcome.
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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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