From our end we are using python-Updateinfo.  It is in the sl-addons repo.

As the primary author of python-Updateinfo I'd be curious if the tool is 
useful to others.

Pat

On 12/27/2013 10:56 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> There was a spec written for a couple of years ago it initially by
> Opensuse which then was enhanced by the spacewalk development
> community and got adopter into the standard for yum repos.
>
> here is one of the first post about it
> http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum/2008-April/021802.html
> here is an other article that came latter
> https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/entry/updates_to_errata_on_uln
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Shatil Rafitullah
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hello Scientific Linux folks,
>>
>> How are you generating the updates repos' updateinfo.xml?
>> (updateinfo.xml.gz)
>>
>> I had thought it came only from official Red Hat Network (RHN) repositories
>> or their projects EPEL or Fedora, but I see it in Scientific Linux:
>>
>> * SCL 5.10:
>> http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc510/updates/x86_64/RPMS/repodata/
>> * SCL 6.5: http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc65/updates/x86_64/RPMS/repodata/
>>
>> Shatil (@shatil)


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