Re: repomd.xml product matching

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 10:56 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 10:28 +0200, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> > Hi, this is the thread to discuss the repository metadata to specify 
> > which products this repository was created for, and for what purpose.
> > 
> > On the call, it was suggested to use:
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> I've been playing around a bit and here is some other options:
> 
> <repomd xmlns="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/repo">
>   <revision>timestamp_or_arbitrary_user_supplied_string</revision>
>   <tags>
>     <content>fedora</content>
>     <content>i386</content>
>     <content>other string</content>
>     <distro cpeid="cpe://o:fedora_project:fedora:9">Fedora 9</distro>
>   </tags>
> 
> 
> 
> <revision> was suggested by some folks at dreamworks so they could refer
> to a definitive tag for each repo
> <tags> are obvious - <content> tags for the packages in the repo
>                      <distro> tag uses the cpeid as attrib + human
> readable string as content
> 
> What do you think?

We talked about this on irc today and it's been implemented.


-sv