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>>> Reply on 13-11-2006 10:27:09 <<<> > > >>> Reply on 09-11-2006 17:45:22 <<<> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 16:27 > +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > I'm a member of the openSUSE community and official maintainer of > > some > > > RPM Packages. > > > The issue for this mail is caused by the Packages of the game > UFO:AI, > > > which has a 160MB Data (thus noarch) RPM. > > > > > > We are thnking (and thus proposing here) an extension of the > > > repository metadata to have the following possibilities (I'll make > it > > > ono the example of UFO:AI, but it applies to other things too) > > > > > > The game is split in a os/arch dependent (binary) and an > > > os/arch-independent (data) part. As the data part is somewhat big > > > (160MB) it's a waste to replicate that one for all OS versions, > and > > > fill servers with it. > > > > > > For this reason we're looking for some capabilities within yum: > > > - If somebody subscribes to a specific repository (in this case > one > > of > > > them containing UFO:AI Binaries), he should automatically be > > > linked-in/subscribed to another repository, containing the Data > > Files. > > > Like this, the Data File can be kept in a unique version and all > OS > > > Versions would subscribe to the same repo. > > > > > > For the moment, the user has to subscribe to both repositories > > > manually and that is very difficult to explain to all users, > > > especially as they are never interested in the technical part and > as > > a > > > consequence, everybody just says: 'hey. it's onle 160MB, don't > > worry' > > > > > > What do YOU think about this suggestion? Can we work out something > > > like this together to get it unified? > > > Hi,
I was just courious: Was there everything said or is there room for discussions? I think it would be a nice imrpovement over the repo metadata to have such a linking feature (heard of others requesting the same).
Regards,
Dominique
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