meta-repository idea (was Re: mplayer vs. xine)

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, seth vidal wrote:

> 
> > I suppose this covers things like mirror information? If not that should
> > be added separately.
> > 
> > >  
> > > - meta-repositories (or repository groups)
> 
> a thought here - what about having repository-wide-provides and
> repository-wide-dependencies?
> 
> It'd be interesting to have: rpm.livna.org depends on fedora-core,
> fedora-extras
> 
> would be hard to control, but potentially interesting.

Mmm, interesting idea indeed. I like it.

While on the subject of common metadata (like I suspected the 
ideas/issues start coming up once you start actually looking into 
implementing it :) - don't worry, no showstoppers so far, just a couple of 
things to (re)consider:
- Do we really want users to download all the src.rpm data each time? Most 
users don't do anything with that information so it sucks up bandwidth for 
no purpose. Maybe the src.rpm file information should be separated to 
different files?
- Any particular reason for using gzip instead of bzip2? The difference 
can be huge, especially for other.xml:
-rw-rw-r--    1 pmatilai pmatilai  3399842 Feb  3 09:58 filelists.xml.bz2
-rw-rw-r--    1 pmatilai pmatilai  4267044 Feb  3 09:56 filelists.xml.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 pmatilai pmatilai  6297754 Feb  3 10:00 other.xml.bz2
-rw-rw-r--    1 pmatilai pmatilai 13301830 Feb  3 09:56 other.xml.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 pmatilai pmatilai  1011254 Feb  3 09:57 primary.xml.bz2
-rw-rw-r--    1 pmatilai pmatilai  1443432 Feb  3 09:56 primary.xml.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 pmatilai pmatilai      666 Feb  3 09:56 repomd.xml

	- Panu -