metadata for legacy repositories

[Jeff Sheltren]

On Aug 2, 2005, at 3:36 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
> This is good info Jeff.  I had planned on setting up a plague  
> server for
> Legacy use in the near future, so that we can easily to builds for  
> FC on
> both archs.  However I was informed that plague/mock wouldn't work so
> well for RHL.  Can you do some more testing to prove/disprove this?  I
> will re-examine creating the secondary metadata format if it could be
> used by mock.
>
>

Well, I'm not sure how to prove that it works 100%, but so far it has  
worked for every package I've tried.  I just rebuilt a few legacy  
packages I had:
- fetchmail
- gzip
- cups
as well as a few other packages for rh73, rh9, fc1 and fc2.  They've  
all built, installed, and run OK.  So far I've only tested i386  
builds for these older distributions, but that's all we support now  
anyway (and I have no reason to believe that other architectures  
won't work).

-Jeff