migration

SOW 0.5.0 focuses on adopting SOW for existing flat YUM repositories. The main addition is sow create --metadata-timestamp SECONDS: publishers can retain a valid publication time when replacing another metadata generator, including repositories used …

SOW 0.4.0 is an integrity and recovery release for Managed repositories. It makes the deep checker’s I/O contract explicit, prevents RPM trust from being assembled across unrelated keys, adds an audited way to correct mutable publication-target …

This record dates to the 2026-08-10 consolidation of SOW around its Repository core. It distills the useful decisions from the earlier planning, ADR, review, migration, and verification trees without turning every intermediate artifact into …

Historical decision ledger The v0.1.0 tag contains 44 ADR files numbered 0001 through 0045; 0006 is absent. This page preserves their meaning without republishing each historical implementation contract as current guidance. An ADR is valuable even …

Historical design record This article describes the v0.1 program initiated on 2026-07-11 and sealed in the v0.1.0 source baseline on 2026-07-31. The Git/CAS/Route/Edge product model is retired. Current behavior is defined by SOW Docs and the …

This guide covers a flat directory of RPMs and repodata/, such as a repository previously built with createrepo_c. It uses Plain sow create, without creating a Managed workspace. The publication-time option requires SOW 0.5.0 or later. 1. Establish …