Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora 7 + Test Updates - 2007-10-16

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 20:33:53 UTC 2007


On 10/17/07, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> So the question becomes, as currently designed, does the repodata
> extend to include package-info that is not tied to the name of a
> package and not the specific n-v-r? If we had repodata info that was
> tied to a package name only we could most definitely send out notices
> to users when packages orphan and/or expire.

Sorry I hit send a little too soon, I added an extra 'not' in one of
those sentences.
I'll re-summarize for people i just confused.
repodata update-info  such as 'security update' ties to a packages n-v-r  right?
can we tie repodata info to package name regardless of version and release?

-jef




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