[repo-coord] Re: Repo information inside rpm?

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 03:10:31AM +0200, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
> He, well , it seems nobody else really likes the idea of putting repo 
> related data in the RPM. Well, I'll just go ahead and do my own thing. 
> Like everyone else ;-)

Unfortunatley in the Red Hat/Fedora communities the only standard is
that everyone has his own standard. It looks quite different in other
camps. :/

Personally I think your idea of adding information is good. I would
only suggest to have information that if changed would not require a
rebuild to be outside the rpm in a separate meta-description
file.

There are tons of uses for providing additional information that can
drive a build system for instance, or a repo creation daemon (for
which distributions to build, stability classes etc.), that don't fit
within the rpm/specfile proper and would very well be served by an
external description file. ATrpms' build system has such ad-hoc
mechanisms, but they are far from being considered a possible draft
for a standard.

In general I'd suggest any information that is required before of
after the rpm builds (choosing platforms to build on, choosing repos
to be shoved in), should be external to the specfile/rpm. Perhaps
you'd like to propose a standard on such an external file format?

I'd for one would go with such a standard, I wouldn't mind the format
per se, whether positional or free, as long as it can be parsed easily
:)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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