On Feb 1, 2005, seth vidal <skvidal(a)phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> And if the metadata generator could somehow easily extract the
> changelog from the srpm and provide it in a separately-downloadable
> file, we could still have a simple command-line tool to get to the
> same info.
Well it does.
other.xml.gz is all changelog information right now.
Right. Because this info is in the rpms and the srpms headers. If it
was removed from them, as suggested in the e-mail upthread I responded
to, even in the portion I quoted in my e-mail, createrepo would need
changes to get the data from elsewhere.
/me hands seth a pair of glasses :-)
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