Yum deltarpm

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:39 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:53 +0200, Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> > Appreciating everyone's help, it seems others have attempted this
> > before. Anyway, let's put this through the test of time :) Also, I
> > totally agree with keeping drpms only if they meet certain criteria,
> > i.e. provide >50% savings or similar. 
> > 
> > Right now, I am trying to figure out how/where the server side will
> > store the drpm metadata. Other.xml.gz seems like a good place, or
> > maybe a new drpm.xml.gz, but I am not sure how such file should be
> > written.
> 
> I seem to recall that primary.xml.gz can list arbitrary xml files which
> the depsolvers will ignore if they don't need them but Seth would know
> better.

repomd.xml can list additional files, not primary - but the result is
the same.

You'd want to tie knowledge of drpms into createrepo.


> Are you writing this from scratch?  If it's using the yum plugin that
> already exists it might be expecting the metadata in a specific format
> already.

plugins can do whatever, pretty much, when it comes to what kind of
metadata they want to deal with.

-sv