rpm repodata

[Gregory Szorc]

I’m not familiar with the RPMs, but we should strive for all packaging code to be in the main repo, under the contrib/packaging/ directory. End state should be that anyone simply needs to copy a command from a readme file to produce a package.

> On Mar 28, 2019, at 13:26, Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> mercurial-devel@ might have ideas about this.
> 
>> On Fri, 22 Mar, 2019, 11:14 Jan Heylen, <heyleke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Pierre-Yves David,
>> 
>> I'm looking for some more info on the (outdated) rpm/yum repodata,
>> hosted on the mercurial-scm page:
>> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/centos7/repodata/
>> 
>> as you might know, Mathias De Maré uploads centos rpms for some time,
>> but it is actually only recently that we found out that the repodata
>> is not updated for a long time (2016)
>> We would like to update it again, but are looking for a proper and
>> correct way to do so.
>> 
>> Looking at https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Download?action=diff&rev1=476&rev2=477,
>> it looks like originally you at least had some info on how this rpm
>> repodata was created. Is that correct?
>> Would you still have the script/command line you used to execute the
>> 'createrepo' command?
>> 
>> If we know how to keep it up to date, we might also maintain it from our side,
>> 
>> br,
>> 
>> Jan Heylen
>> Nokia
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