Re: Minor patch for createrepo (to allow .deb indexing)

Oliver Falk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.metadata
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Javier Palacios schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on a version of createrepo/yum able to work with debian packages.
> The first change required is to search for .deb files instead of .rpm
> extensions.
> The patch I submit just replaces the explicit '.rpm' strings with a
> variable so there is a single point to modify if we search for diffent
> extensions.

Sounds like a good idea, but is createrepo able to really >index< .deb
files; I mean getting name, version, release, description, ... from the
pkgs?

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