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) -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer http://www.scientificlinux.org/