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<B>Romain d'Alverny</B>
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<I>Wed Nov 3 20:04:59 CET 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 19:47, Olivier Thauvin
<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org</A>> wrote:
[...]
><i> So, question and my own POV about this:
</I>><i> 1) /etc/product.id
</I>><i>  * I don't like this file, I think it is redundant with
</I>><i>    /etc/mandriva-release
</I>
It appeared for several reasons, in order to have a consistent scheme
to identify several Mandriva products: an ISO release, a specific
media, a set of media, a physical product, etc. It used to be spec'ed,
but not properly reviewed, neither strongly/fully implemented. See
<A HREF="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/product_id">http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/product_id</A> (it never left the draft stage
actually).
It could have been only an int, or a hash string, putted against a
database to get a human readable label, but that would be then, less
human readable in the first place.
><i>  * Why "basic" and not "Free" since it is the "product" flag ? Dunno
</I>><i>  * Notice "cooker" does not appear in this file
</I>
It could. But here, provided it's a stable release, "cooker" is not
supposed to appear.
Given the new situation, I suggest to use a /etc/release file, somehow
like the /etc/mandriva-release file, but being strongly structured
(/etc/mandriva-release wasn't, in the long run), so we can have at
least:
- product name (Mageia)
- version
- arch
- branch (or something stating the unstable/stable release state)
- build number (in case of automated builds, someday).
with mandatory ones being product name, version and arch.
><i> [...]
</I>><i> 3) The content
</I>><i> [...]
</I>><i>  * Do we need specific line for update since now distribution include
</I>><i>    everything
</I>
If we happen to have mirrors that only mirror an update tree?
><i>  * Do we keep this format ?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Keeping this format is more simple, just changing the line specifiying
</I>><i> basis url in URPMI.
</I>><i> By changing the the format we can add features, make it clearer, etc...
</I>><i> But changing format to what ? XML ? YAML ? CSV ? something worst ? :)
</I>><i> Changes can done later.
</I>
It's not an optimal format, but it looks simple and good enough. What
would be needed to extend/change it?
Romain
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