Re: updateinfo.xml type

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 05:25:32PM +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 ?).
> 
> Do you have any suggestion how to converge in this field, and how it
> would be possible to support both concepts?

Maybe by creating a new 'severity' attribute to the update element?


luke