Re: tags in .repo files

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:09 +0200, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 19:24:09 Paul Nasrat wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 15:34 +0200, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:

> > > I want to assign tags to that repo, like, "updates,kernel,cool,unstable"
> >
> > What actual problem are you trying to solve with this tagging?
> 
> The openSUSE build service allows project owners and the community to tag 
> repositories and packages via the web interface and the web api. The 
> resulting repositories are dumped as rpm-md repositories. Package management 
> UIs should be able to get this tags so they can be displayed.

You might want to look at modifyrepo and use that in conjunction with
your own schema for tags, see the yum security plugin from yum-utils cvs
and yum.update_md for an implementation of adding arbitrary metadata.

Paul