repomd.xml product matching

Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.metadata
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi, this is the thread to discuss the repository metadata to specify 
which products this repository was created for, and for what purpose.

On the call, it was suggested to use:

<distro>
  <id></id>
  ...
</distro>

Where the id is specified as a 
http://cpe.mitre.org/files/cpe-specification_2.0.pdf string.
 
I would rename distro to platform (because we are using cpe) and it is 
more generic for addons products.

For specifying purpose, we said using generic tags would be ok:

<keywords>
  <k>update</k>
  <k>unstable</k>
</keywords>


And clients could interpret those tags.

Comments?
Duncan
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