Re: a replacement for .discinfo?

[Chris Lumens <clumens redhat com>]

> >[wwoods metroid os]$ cat .distinfo
> >family: Fedora
> >variant: Desktop
> >version: 6.90
> >arch: i386
> >timestamp: 1170104239.562016
> >composeid: 20070129.1
> >disc: 2/3
> >packagedir: Fedora
> >
> Don't know if it would apply in this case, but a very easy format that
> that is a bit more flexible is the old "win.ini" format, where you
> have section headers, followed by key value pairs (samba uses this
> config format), such that if you wanted to namespace things a bit you
> could.  That said, name spacing can be achieved in the variable name
> itself.

We even already have code in rhpl to manipulate files of this format,
though that doesn't help much in the loader.

- Chris