Re: new metadata format for repositories

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

> Generating the repodata works fine for me. A quick glance at the gzipped
> xml files shows nothing unusual... it even looks like like they pretty much
> contain what is said in the documentation ;-)

Amazing! :)


> Great work. Many thanks to you seth and all the others who participated in
> getting this common representation finally together. It's going to make
> repository administrators' life so much easier, as well as open great new
> possibilities wrt package indexing and searching.

let's hope so.

> Let me know when/if there is a daily yum snapshot which starts using this
> repodata, as I'd be more than glad to generate it for all ayo.freshrpms.net
> and ask for massive testing :-)

There isn't a yum yet ready to go but I think in the process of building
up a yum that's ready to go I'll be writing some 'test scripts' that do
various things with the repodata.

I'll let you know as I go along.

Thanks!
-sv