Op maandag 9 januari 2006 11:07, schreef Christoph Thiel:
What about repomd'ing everything that suse provides. Think about suse-people, suse-projects directories. But also provide similar repodata repositories for kotd, mozilla, wine and last but not least security updates!!!
As those different repos are all managed by different people, it's not that easy to have all of them providing repomd stuff. At least the mozilla projects dirs have beend "repomded" already...
And yours, kraxel's, mine, kolab, packman, suser-guru (I think). Now build a repodata community around them (see below)!
(However there is one issue with this approach: The YOU trees contain scripts, which would only be accessible if SMART / $other_package_manager would implement the methods to access the metadata / patch description stuff of the YOU trees. I'm pretty sure APT isn't / wasn't able to access those parts of the updates either.)
See above this would be awesome to have, but if I was in charge of moving things from an apt repository to repodata I would put this somewhere on the bottom of my TODO list. Christoph any idea when we can have a repomd repository originated at suse similar to the apt repository?
A new structure on the server can be created like apt: ..../suse/apt ..../suse/rmd/10.0-i586/ rmd = repomd or repo metadat (that is its official name) This directory can contain links to e.g. packman -> misc/packman/suse-10.0 suser-rbos -> ~misc/apt4rpm/10.0 base -> /ftp/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/suse update -> where are the updates located?
It would be nice to see something happening in this direction...
IMHO this is something that we will need (and have) as soon as the build services goes public with a lot of different repos.
Christoph use your account at gwdg and start buidling the structure above. It would be a good start and it would give insight what is needed. You can even link your own and kraxel's and mozilla repodata into that structure. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless