You may know that we are slowly heading to use the rpmmd format as the default one. We already do for the build service since the beginning, and the only remaining part is the media.

Therefore, we have been following an strategy of, at the same time, extending rpmmd with our own extensions, but at the same time, talk to the yum people in order to think in more long term about changes in the format.

Right now, in the openSUSE 11.1Beta code, you find the following extensions:

> updateinfo.xml (patches, same Format as Fedora)
> deltainfo.xml (delta-rpms, same format as yum-presto, different name)
> suseinfo.xml (repository extra data)
> susedata.xml (package extra data, like eulas and disk usage per mount point)

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