Re: A few questions about the format

Joe Shaw <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.metadata
Message-ID <1068481721.31163.1.camel@bacon>
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 19:27, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> (1) The 'type' attribute in the package element. I can see the
> advantages of making this CDATA, so that we are not just restricted to
> RPM and Debian-based packages, but what are the suggested values? Should
> we say that this will be "rpm" for RPMs and "deb" (or what) for .debs?
> Are there other types we care about at the moment?

Red Carpet will need it for RC-specific package sets, so we should keep
it open-ended but with a convention.

Joe
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