> How feasible would it be to keep the listings in primary.xml and > filelists.xml sorted by package name and arch? Doing so could open the door > to simple and efficient diffs of repository metadata.
Createrepo_c [1] keeps packages sorted by filename [2] by default. Sorting based on filenames was chosen intentionally, a package basename usually consists of name-version-release.arch - so the sorting is more deterministic than just name and arch. Tomas [1] https://github.com/Tojaj/createrepo_c [2] https://github.com/Tojaj/createrepo_c/blob/master/src/createrepo_c.c#L111 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
