On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 13:13 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 9/3/06, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > But the XML is all generated from out of the RPM headers again AIUI. > > The RPM headers seem to be the lingua franca here. > > > Not all the information.... the comps information is not contained in > the rpm headers. > And the metadata concept is flexible enough to include other things > that end-users need, such as notification text to tell update clients > why updates are being offered. or to flag updates as security > related...contextual information that makes very little sense as part > of a header of a single package, but only has meaning in the context > of the repository in which the package is found. This is a good point. We've been using comps for a while now but in the last few months Luke's update/security info xml file has really taken off. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
