Re: updateinfo.xml type

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 17:25 +0100, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> We (SUSE) are trying to unify our patch terminology, and also to
> separate better the update categories we have.
> 
> Draft: http://en.opensuse.org/Maintenance/Code11/Terminology
> 
> I have been trying to see how can we incorporate this into the metadata,
> so I have been looking into Fedora10 patches?
> 
> <update from="[email protected]" status="stable" type="bugfix"
> version="1.4">
> 
> I also saw "newpackage" and "enhancement" ( I ignore all possible values )
>
> Therefore, it seems type, represents the category or "Why is there an
> update?" part of the terminology.
> 
> However, on the SUSE repos, we have been using this field as a
> replacement for the old "category" field:
> "security", "recommended". Which is the first part (Severity Rating -
> how urgent is the update ?).

 Well only thing that uses it in yum, that I know of (other than just to
display it as text), is yum-security and that _just_ looks for if it ==
"security". So I don't see any problems putting "recommended" in the
list of things that can be there (I assume that's just bugfix which is
highly recommended?).

> Do you have any suggestion how to converge in this field, and how it
> would be possible to support both concepts?

-- 
James Antill <[email protected]>
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