On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 2:01 PM Dennis Kliban <dkli...@redhat.com> wrote:
> During last week's RPM team meeting, a concern was raised about using the > same repository type for both Red Hat and SUSE repositories. Since that > meeting I have only been able to identify a single difference between the > two repositories. SUSE repos can contain the same package in two different > locations in the same repository. Even though I just referred to this as a > difference, I don't actually believe that to be true. All RPM repositories > should be able to support this. > If I'm reading the discussion w/the RPM folks correctly, this is 'odd but legal' for rpm-repositories. That means that, while SUSE may be the only current example, there's nothing to keep some other distro/thirdparty from doing the exact same thing, and we'd have to handle it. > I propose that we not add a separate repository type for SUSE and simply > add the 'location' attribute of an RPM to it's uniqueness constraint. What > do you all think? > Yeah, concur. It feels messy - but only because the problem-domain itself is messy :( G _______________________________________________ > Pulp-dev mailing list > Pulp-dev@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-dev > -- Grant Gainey Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat System Management Engineering
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