Re: metadata layout problems and some history

On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, seth vidal wrote:

> 7.  An occasionally-requested feature is to have the repodata also
> contain (somewhere) the scriptlets (%pre, %post, %triggers, etc) of all
> the pkgs - package collections as has recently been discussed on
> rpm-maint will come into play there, too.
>
> 8. repository 'expiration'
>
> 10. repo labeling and repo 'dependencies' to 'help' in determining if
> two repos have pkgs which can interoperate work with one another.

I would love to see these three features.  But isn't repo labeling already 
covered by the <repo> tag?  Something simple like <base_system>repo 
tag</basesystem> would be nice for giving an idea of whether or not a 
repository can work with a certain platform.

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