[OE-core] [PATCH 00/45] Move recipes to use Python 3 whenever possible

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 05/26/2016 04:39 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:

> The interchange format of the newer createrepo is very different then the older
> format the smartpm uses.  Thus they have to be kept in sync.  The new format
> also does not have the extensions we added for the recommended package syntax.
>
> createrepo is very small, and it's not YUM dependent.  It simply reads the
> metadata (via the rpm interface) and dumps out data in an XML format.. then does
> a few more things as well.  So porting the existing one forward shouldn't be
> difficult.  It's just not clear at this point what the best behavior will be to
> do.. port createrepo forward -- or update smartpm to support the newer format
> (with appropriate extensions.)

I still don't understand why introducing yum/dnf as a replacement for 
smartpm should be avoided at all costs. Like smartpm, it's fully written 
in Python, so that theoretically should be less painful that building 
working binaries.

Alex