Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-softwaremgmt (14 mails)

[Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>]

Hi guys, here is the proposal:

we put the .solv file in repodata/something.solv

repomd.xml gets extra data:

<data type="solv">
   <location href="repodata/something.solv.gz"/>
   <checksum type="sha">eed8ddc83f767f5a959b29e3ec006f53a2ab871d</checksum>
   <timestamp>1205162318</timestamp>
   <open-checksum 
type="sha">e837550df577f334d03d71b4bb1218d6b533e1ae</open-checksum>
</data>

Advantages:
- no need to re-sign the solv file.
- we can add version and metadata in the same file.

Version information could be stored as:
<data type="solv" format-version="7" schema-version="3">

Cons:
- need to modify createrepo, but we already do for patches, if we use 
createrepo. If not, this is not a cons.

libzypp workflow:

* when probing, probe first for type "solv" (becomes a new type of repos)
* look for repomd.xml,
* look if there are solv files
* download and unpack
* if there are not, fallback to yum (this needs to be evaluated wether 
it is easy).

For CDs, we can put there a repodata/repomd.xml with the solv file 
information only.

Opinions?
Duncan


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