Re: adding different compression types to createrepo

Robert Xu <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Aug 2010 11:26:18 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.metadata
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:12, seth vidal <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 09:05 -0600, Matthew Dawkins wrote:
>>         >
>>         > >> OK. I'll try to add the "Requires(hint):" to the sqlite
>>         as well.
>>         > >>
>>         > >> It should only be an extra column of "hint BOOLEAN
>>         DEFAULT FALSE"
>>         > >
>>         > > The requires(hint) you're talking about - do you mean the
>>         requires
>>         > > (pre)
>>         > > information? If so - that's stored in the sqlite db.
>>         >
>>         > It's for RPMSENSE_MISSINGOK, suggests/enhances hint.
>>         >
>>         > And yes, it is stored similarly to RPMSENSE_PREREQ
>>
>>
>>         Ah - missingok, that's special to only specific rpm versions.
>>
>>
>> To rpm5??? which is another progressive project that we support and
>> would like to see better supported with createrepo.
>>
>
> rpm5 is a fork and one I do not and will not be supporting anytime soon.
>
> I want nothing to do with it and that's really the end of the
> discussion, imo.
>

the tone doesn't really help the situation here.

-- 
later, Robert Xu