Lack of update information
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Mon Jan 26 19:13:13 UTC 2009
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Adding a "news" or "changelog" file attribute would cost exactly one bit of a
> bitfield, that would be quite another story. Except .. well, rpm already
> supports %readme and %license "file attributes", but nothing at all uses them
> for anything. Part of that is probably that they aren't compatible with %doc
> so they're pretty cumbersome to use in a spec. Maybe that'd be worth fixing,
> and at least licenses are something that would want special treatment anyway
> (ie get installed even with --nodocs)
...and of course, this is what the original request was about. Only then
you're back to the point that the file contents are in the payload, and
accessing it is way too expensive to do in createrepo. And still you'd get
this *huge* blob of xml/sqlite that you'd have to download to access the
data...
- Panu -
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