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

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 16:29 +0200, Christoph Thiel wrote:
> 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?
> 

the latter.

-sv