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Jon Wallace | 14 Jun 2011 17:34
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repomd tags question


The createrepo command provides for <distro> and <content> tags in 
repomd.xml.  My question is, what other repository or install related 
commands read these tags and make use of them?  Does yum?  Or are the 
tags provided for manual inspection and custom tools.  Other than the 
createrepo manpage I can't find any documentation suggesting how these 
tags are used once they exist in the repomd file.

Jon
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James Antill | 14 Jun 2011 18:14
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Re: repomd tags question

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:34 -0400, Jon Wallace wrote:
> The createrepo command provides for <distro> and <content> tags in 
> repomd.xml.  My question is, what other repository or install related 
> commands read these tags and make use of them?  Does yum?  Or are the 
> tags provided for manual inspection and custom tools.  Other than the 
> createrepo manpage I can't find any documentation suggesting how these 
> tags are used once they exist in the repomd file.

 Both zypper and yum parse them. Atm. the only thing yum does with them
is display them in "repolist -v" ... at various points there have been
discussions about triggering debuginfo/source repos. based on them
(instead of repoid, which is currently used).
 Note that "revision" is also saved in a few places (saved transactions,
yumdb, etc.) ... but nothing automatically "uses" it atm.
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