Re: createrepo suggestion

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 18:32, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> > > I noticed that the current createrepo tool is including the rpm
> > > namespace information in every package, as a 'format' attribute.
> > > I'd like to suggest the inclusion of this information in the
> > > global metadata tag. This will save about 45 bytes per package,
> > > without changing the current scheme.
> > 
> > in the global metadata tag? Wouldn't that preclude any eventual mixed
> > package-type repositories? Or do you mean in the <format> tag?
> 
> Yes, in the global metadata tag.  Something like that:
> 
> <metadata xmlns="..." xmlns:rpm="..." xmlns:deb="...">
> 
> I don't understand why you belive doing so would limit mixed type
> repositories.

Ah, okay, I thought you were saying something else, I thought you meant
replacing the global namespace.

I've got no objection to changing the location of the name space to the
top tag. I'd like to verify that xml parsers will deal with multiple
namespaces defined there.

-sv