Re: Lack of update information

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:48:49PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones (rjones redhat com) said: 
> > Yum already pulls out lots of meta-info from the RPMs and stores it in
> > its own database, eg:
> > 
> > $ zless repodata/primary.xml.gz
> ...
> 
> *All* of that is in the RPM header. It's not pulling anything out of the
> file payload.

So?  createrepo would need to parse a bit more of the RPM.

Rich.

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