repomd tags question

[Jon Wallace]

The createrepo command provides for <distro> and <content> tags in
repomd.xml. My question is, what other repository or install related
commands read these tags and make use of them? Does yum? Or are the
tags provided for manual inspection and custom tools. Other than the
createrepo manpage I can't find any documentation suggesting how these
tags are used once they exist in the repomd file.

Jon

[James Antill]

Post by Jon Wallace
The createrepo command provides for <distro> and <content> tags in
repomd.xml. My question is, what other repository or install related
commands read these tags and make use of them? Does yum? Or are the
tags provided for manual inspection and custom tools. Other than the
createrepo manpage I can't find any documentation suggesting how these
tags are used once they exist in the repomd file.

Both zypper and yum parse them. Atm. the only thing yum does with them
is display them in "repolist -v" ... at various points there have been
discussions about triggering debuginfo/source repos. based on them
(instead of repoid, which is currently used).
Note that "revision" is also saved in a few places (saved transactions,
yumdb, etc.) ... but nothing automatically "uses" it atm.