Op maandag 9 januari 2006 09:56, schreef Christoph Thiel:
> > > I thought that YOU is already able to repomd formatted pkg
> > > repositories?
> >
> > YOU is something completely different.
> >
> > > Could you explain what Mauricio is adding?
>
> Correct. The metadata / patch description stuff is documented in the
> yast2-packagemanager-devel package
> (/usr/share/doc/packages/yast2-packagemanager/*).

linux:~ # ls /usr/share/doc/packages/yast2-packagemanager/*
/bin/ls: /usr/share/doc/packages/yast2-packagemanager/*: No such file or 
directory

linux:~ # smart 
install /usr/share/doc/packages/yast2-packagemanager/pkg-sel-use-cases.txt
Loading cache...
Updating cache...                   
############################################### [100%]

Computing transaction...

Installed packages (4):
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3.3MB of package files are needed. 25.5MB will be used.

Confirm changes? (Y/n): n

Please copy and past the relevant text.  So we do not all to install 25Megs 
and dig through it to read only 1k....

> > Just dealing with YaST2 sources for now, not YOU yet. For now you need
> > to add the updates repository in APT format. But I plan to add YOU
> > support in all of it's glory as soon as possible. :)
>
> ... we have a feature request pending to enable repomd on YOU trees.
> Chances are good that we will get this to work for 10.1. 

What about repomd'ing everything that suse provides.  Think about suse-people, 
suse-projects directories.  But also provide similar repodata repositories 
for kotd, mozilla, wine and last but not least security updates!!!

> (However there is 
> one issue with this approach: The YOU trees contain scripts, which would
> only be accessible if SMART / $other_package_manager would implement the
> methods to access the metadata / patch description stuff of the YOU trees.
> I'm pretty sure APT isn't / wasn't able to access those parts of the
> updates either.)

See above this would be awesome to have, but if I was in charge of moving 
things from an apt repository to repodata I would put this somewhere on the 
bottom of my TODO list.  Christoph  any idea when we can have a repomd 
repository originated at suse similar to the apt repository?

A new structure on the server can be created like apt:
..../suse/apt
..../suse/rmd/10.0-i586/
rmd = repomd or repo metadat (that is its official name)
This directory can contain links to e.g. 
packman -> misc/packman/suse-10.0
suser-rbos -> ~misc/apt4rpm/10.0
base -> /ftp/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/suse
update -> where are the updates located?

It would be nice to see something happening in this direction...

-- 
Richard Bos
Without a home the journey is endless

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