FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-10-29

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>
> I think we should be storing tag information into the packagedb.  But I
> think it should be used to generate static files that are used in other
> tools.
>
> I'm leaning towards the idea that there should be separate files for the
> installer and general use (so that the installer isn't sprinkled with
> thousands of libraries but one could still use yum to search for "all
> packages that have a 'python' 'library' to do 'ssl'").


We can add these to the items that yum already searches from a 'yum 
search' fairly easily.


> Note that this requires quite a bit of work.  The packagedb currently
> operates on SRPMS-only.  It should be easy to add built packages to the
> data model but the whole infrastructure of populating that data,
> displaying it, etc will need to be built.  If someone would like to work
> on it, I'd be very happy to help get you working with the codebase.

The only trick I can think of is how to store this info so it is:
1. compact
2. not constantly being re-downloaded.
3. not irrationally over-tagged so you get waaaay too many matches.


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