Additional Repository Metadata

[David T Farning]

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 08:49 -0700, Shahms King wrote:
> Given that the yum/apt/up2date repository metadata format is in a bit of
> flux at the moment, this seems like a reasonable time to ask if it would
> be possible to add something like a "severity" field to the metadata to
> allow tools to distinguish between security and "normal" updates.

That sounds like a pretty good idea.  I don't know in seth the
yum/metadata dude follows this list regularly.  Please try him at

rpm-metadata at lists.dulug.duke.edu





David T Farning <dfarning at sbcglobal.net>