Re: createrepo: file-pattern-match and dir-pattern-match?

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:20:07AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 16:20 +0200, Christoph Thiel wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > createrepo's genpkgmetadata.py has some file-pattern-match and
> > dir-pattern-match options, that basically make sure to some file and dir
> > provides to primary.xml. Currently, they default to:
> > 
> >     cmds['file-pattern-match'] = ['.*bin\/.*', '^\/etc\/.*','^\/usr\/lib\/sendmail$']
> >     cmds['dir-pattern-match'] = ['.*bin\/.*', '^\/etc\/.*']
> > 
> > To make real use of these file and dir patterns, we would need to somehow
> > put their values into primary.xml, so that a package manager can decide if
> > it needs to pull in filelist.xml or not (based on the information that it
> > has in primary.xml and the requires a certain package might have)?
> > 
> > Thoughts, opinions?
> 
> If we make it an option then we have to declare a version change in the
> metadata b/c the metadata won't be compatible with older versions of
> package managers.
> 
> I think it should probably be done - but I'm not sure if that's the only
> change we need to make which will be a compat change, do you?

I guess we could even introduce this, without breaking old package managers.
In case the information is available use it, if it's not there, assume
everything is as it used to be?

Or are you asking for further fixes/changes that we could do to the
metadata, if we were to change to introduce a new version?


Best,
Christoph
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