Hi all, As some of you know, I've been working on an xml format for a repository of packages. I've been working on this with many other people involved in pkg management tool development and repository maintenance. Right now we've created a specification: (http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/readme.metadata) and I've written a program to create this format of files from a directory of rpms: http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/generate/createrepo-0.3.1.tar.gz I know that work is being done to support this format in up2date, yum and apt. It's not complete yet, but the goal of this is to make a format that all of the package mgmt tools can use and to remove the need for 3+ different representations of same package metadata Our goals were: bandwidth-light functional for dependency resolution functional for general queries standard format for metadata no matter what the package type (right now .deb and rpm) Take a look at the above program, run it against a set of packages and see what bugs you can find. I'd encourage anyone looking for explanations of the format to look at the dtds and look at the mailing list archives: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-metadata/ let me know what is broken or not-quite-right. people to thank: Adrian Likins Brent Fox Jeff Licquicia Jeff Johnson Jeremy Katz Russ Herrold Panu Matilainen John Daily Peter Bowen Joe Shaw Daniel Veillard Malcolm Treddinick James Olin-Oden Mark Hatle Martin Michlmayr Darrin Thompson Matt Zimmerman (this list compiled from the names of people who contributed to the discussion on the mailing list, if I missed anyone, please let me know) Thanks. -sv _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
