Re: adding different compression types to createrepo

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 11:26 -0400, Robert Xu wrote:
> 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.

The tone reflects reality and a far deeper history than I want to go
into here.

But more to the point - since the python bindings between rpm and rpm5
have diverged compatibility is no longer guaranteed. Yum and createrepo
will be following rpm.


-sv