[users] Metadata broken for *at least* rh9

[Rex Dieter]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> 
>> I just talked to skvidal about
>> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444882> - looks like the
>> metadata in *at least* the rh9 repository is broken (no, I know that rh9
>> isn't rawhide9, but that doesn't matter ...).
> 
> The metadata is not broken, yum is broken.
> 
> Seth is the sole reason why we have this situation. The createrepo 
> metadata was not designed with backward compatibility in mind and 
> therefor does not understand the situation where the epoch is unset 
> (which is the case for older distributions).

joy,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444882

The metadata DTD (as written, according to Seth anyway), pretty much 
requires it.

-- Rex

-- Rex