Daniel Alley
Daniel Alley
Yes, this would be great.
Slight sidenote, there's a couple of metadata features that createrepo_c supports that aren't covered by the test fixtures (though I'm sure they work fine). repomd.xml - ``````, ``````, `````` tags...
Can you give a general overview of how rpm-ostree is currently using the existing RPM metadata format, and how it is using its own special metadata (not specific to this...
> rpm-ostree uses libdnf, the same as dnf. There is no special metadata today. I was expecting that ostree-specific metadata is involved somewhere in the chain, but if not, apologies....
> rpm-ostree uses ostree by default; no rpm metadata at all is fetched. Well, that is what I was asking :) Basically I'm just trying to figure out if it...
What use cases do you have in mind?
If you look at the description in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/createrepo_c_1.0.0#Detailed_Description, it lays out some of the rationale - notably that this isn't the only compatibility glitch with EL7 introduced in 1.0. The...
There's already a `--compatibility` mode, is it not possible to overload that? Or add modes to it, such that `--compatibility` behaves the same, but `--compatibility=rhel7` includes these behaviors?
`--compatibility` was overloaded with some additional helpful behavior, can this be closed now?