Would an API for accessing this data be necessary when there are CentOS mirrors already?
Publishing the file within the repo is what I see Scientific Linux and Fedora doing, and access to that data this way would work fine for me. Shatil (@shatil)
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 01/10/2014 06:44 PM, Shatil Rafiullah wrote:
I'd love to get updateinfo.xml (or updateinfo.xml.gz) from CentOS rather than rely on another project, and I'm happy to contribute to making this happen.
The issue isnt about the updateinfo.xml as such - most of the interesting metadata around that is available, and we've been processing it since back in 2008 or so, the larger problem is how the centos repos are setup and the user work flows around what comes from the updateinfo.xml being present.
Lets have a wider conversation around that, and also how the mirror network needs to move around before we can consume that easily - maybe lets start by defining the user stories - if its just for consuming some metadata into spacewalk or something, an api service would be trivial to setup at the centos.org end.
- KB
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