SuSE freeze fixed!

[Christoph Thiel]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:

> > Well, we already offer rpm-md metadata with the ftp trees of SUSE 
> > Linux - I don't see any need to add yet another metadata set to it. 
> > But this is all a matter of discussion - if you make a good case for 
> > it, we might consider adding something else.
> 
> I have some plans for a text format that allows mapping file paths <-> 
> packages very quickly, without having to parse all the file list.
> 
> I haven't had time to take the idea further, but if I receive enough 
> pressure on it, it could be made real. It would greatly improve the 
> processing speed of any tool that needs that kind of mapping.

We will most likely have rpm-md as default metadata format sooner or 
later. If I get it right, Fedora already switched to rpm-md - so we should 
all try to make rpm-md support in smart as mature as possible.


Regards
	Christoph