[repo-coord] Re: Sub-Repo for Yum and Smart

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:01:02PM +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> In my reworking, I dropped support for Apt.  And, as the repos move 
> forward, I would encourage all to do the same.  Especially since smart 
> has matured enough and it reuses md from other sources (ie xml-md).
> 
> I am willing to contribute to a micro-repo dedicated to providing a 
> common rpm, yum, and smart setup for at least the distros I mentioned 
> above.  I'd also be willing to not continue the yum20 line at all; but, 
> I see that the political strings would be difficult to pull.

Why not include apt and perhaps even yum20 in this common
infrastructure repo? This shouldn't promote actual generation of these
metadata for all repos, e.g. if we organise such a common repo, the
participants should be forced to create all metadata.

apt is still widely used, especially in older distros, and smart chews
with better performance on apt metadata than the repo-mds.

> Anyway, I started working on libxml2 stuff and thought, I should take 
> this from atrpms.  Then, I looked at repo-coord and thought maybe we 
> should startup this discussion...

I wouldn't mind, I would just need a copy of it in ATrpms to keep the
package set closed (and it should still build on the older distros).

It is also needed in a common infrastructure repo for a yum rpm.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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