Re: Easier way to maintain comps.xml ?

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On Tuesday 05 June 2007 14:53:59 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Just fishing for opinions here.
>
> EPEL will likely have a comps.xml soon, too. Thus if you add a new
> package to Fedora and build it for all supported dists you have to add
> the entry to five comps.xml files in the future (Fedora current, Fedora
> current-1, Fedora devel, EPEL4 and EPEL5 (not counting Fedora current-2,
> which would be FC-5 currently, but that is EOL soon)).
>
> Isn't there a easier way to maintain that information in the long term?
> Maybe via the package database? The only thing that might be different
> in the different comps.xml files is afaics the group a package belongs to.
>
> Or do we simply don't care as we have bigger problems right now?
>


We know that comps sucks, and we want to fix it.  Time and bandwidth are the 
issues.

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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora

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