Re: metadata layout problems and some history

On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:27 +0200, Matt Barringer wrote:
> 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.

you can munge repo labeling with tags, yes - but it's very freeform.

We have architectures in there so you can glance at that list and see
whether or not you even need to go on. If it's an all-ppc repo and
you're on i686 it's kinda pointless. :)

-sv