Development -> Release use of --oldpackage

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 13:13 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 9/3/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> > But the XML is all generated from out of the RPM headers again AIUI.
> > The RPM headers seem to be the lingua franca here.
> 
> 
> Not all the information.... the comps information is not contained in
> the rpm headers.
> And the metadata concept is flexible enough to include other things
> that end-users need, such as notification text to tell update clients
> why updates are being offered. or to flag updates as security
> related...contextual information that makes very little sense as part
> of a header of a single package, but only has meaning in the context
> of the repository in which the package is found.

This is a good point. We've been using comps for a while now but in the
last few months Luke's update/security info xml file has really taken
off.

-sv