Re: RPM Objects 0.1
seth vidal <skvidal-c/MNwgJ9CEH2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]> Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:07:19 -0400
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On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 14:54, Tor Hveem wrote: > Onsdag 21. april 2004 05:31 skreiv Adam T. Gautier: > > Does anyone know if there is any work in the area of defining an XML > > standard for RPM metadata? > > You also have the software updater program swup <URL:http://swup.trustix.org/> > which uses rpm metadata in xml generated by rdfgen, a comononent in swup. > To make sure I have this right - you're generating a filelists and a packages list and an rdf for each package? I read through the metadata format - the rdf - for the packages - have you looked at the metadata format that I posted before? What did you think of the xml that was generated there? In what ways do you think the rdf format excels? I'm not interested in arguing formats but I'd like to know ways in which the one I've been working on can be better done. Thanks -sv