Re: quasi-idea
Jeff Johnson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.metadata |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Daniel Veillard wrote: >On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:07:43PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > >>Hi all, >> I was just reading over old mail and backlogs of irc among other things >>and I noticed something Jeff Johnson had mentioned a while back. >> >>Specifically a comment about xml referrals. Is it possible to do a valid >>referral in an xml file, like you would with an ldap tree? >> >> > > If you explain the semantic you expect from "valid referral" I can probably >answer for the XML side. > > This is prolly the XML name space idea you had for rpm packaging several years ago. Otherwise, I dunno what skvidal is talking about ... HTH 73 de Jeff > > >>I'm asking b/c it would be an interesting experience to create a >>distribution 'tree' that was a set of metadata repositories tied >>together by a central metadata repo that used referrals to find other >>items. >> >> > > Sounds something based on Hyperlink references like for example based >on XInclude [1] might work. You can test with xmllint --xinclude ... > > > >>It'd be interesting to see if people could assemble distributions from >>mutliple repositories. >> >>Anyone think that might be an interesting area to look into? >> >> > > Seems to me doing the assembly at the XML level is not really the right >way. The fact that package foo comes from disto A while foo-extra1 comes >from distro B are of interest, for example if you need foo-devel you >really should look into A first. I really think aggregation should be done >hierachically and if you loose that at the metadata level, problems will >follow. > >Daniel > >[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/ > > >