Re: primary refinement

seth vidal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.metadata
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 02:36 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> 
> >So i'm looking at primary.xml.gz and I'm thinking of useful ways of
> >refining the data included a bit so it's a bit lighter to read in.
> >
> >I was thinking what do y'all think of moving the following fields to a
> >different xml file in the repository?
> >
> >summary
> >
> 
> This might be useful for browsing and orienting within the xml, also 
> useful for
> spiffy detailed progress, as in anaconda. OTOH, if not C locale only,
> lose summary as fast as possible.
> 
> >description
> >packager
> >license
> >vendor
> >group
> >url (url for the package, not url location of the rpm)
> >buildhost
> >  
> >
> None of these have much use for depsolvers at all.
> 

Right - which is why I was thinking of moving them out to a description
file or some such thing.

-sv
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