Over in the Update Center 2 project we want to support informing
the user what's new in a package update (relative to the previous
version) and highlight updates that contain security fixes. To
do this we need to get the information from the package metadata.

I don't see much in tags-and-attributes.txt on this.

Reading through the /PSARC/2008/190 materials I find these examples:

com.sun.service.info_url =
"http://service.opensolaris.com/xml/pkg/[EMAIL 
PROTECTED],5.11-1:20080514I120000Z"

com.sun.service.keywords = "sort null -n -m -t sort 0x86 separator"

com.sun.service.incorporated_changes = "6556919" "6627937" [list-valued]

This seems to cover what I need if "security" can be used as a keyword
to highlight security updates.

Questions:

1) Are these finalized?

2) Is there a reason these are scoped to "com.sun.service"? Why not:

     info.info_url, info.keywords, info.incorporated_changes

(I think there was a proposal to use "info" for general optional metadata)

3) Is the intent that "incorporated_changes" would be a list value? That
doesn't seem to work today. A space delimited string would be an
alternative.

Thanks,

Joe


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