On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:39 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:53 +0200, Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> Appreciating everyone's help, it seems others have attempted this
> before. Anyway, let's put this through the test of time :) Also, I
> totally agree with keeping drpms only if they meet certain criteria,
> i.e. provide >50% savings or similar.
>
> Right now, I am trying to figure out how/where the server side will
> store the drpm metadata. Other.xml.gz seems like a good place, or
> maybe a new drpm.xml.gz, but I am not sure how such file should be
> written.
I seem to recall that primary.xml.gz can list arbitrary xml files which
the depsolvers will ignore if they don't need them but Seth would know
better.
repomd.xml can list additional files, not primary - but the result is
the same.
You'd want to tie knowledge of drpms into createrepo.
Are you writing this from scratch? If it's using the yum plugin
that
already exists it might be expecting the metadata in a specific format
already.
plugins can do whatever, pretty much, when it comes to what kind of
metadata they want to deal with.
-sv