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 at 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 > -- > Karanbir Singh > +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh > GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel