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>>>>> "Ingo" == Ingo Krabbe <i.krabbe@×××××.net> writes: |
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Ingo> On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 06:37:43PM +1000, Rendhalver [Peter Brown] wrote: |
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>> a while ago i thought about trying to generate an xml representation |
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>> of the portage "database" |
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>> i thought it would be cool to have it as xml cause then we could use |
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>> it for various purposes it would include the entire portage tree and |
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>> the database with extra bits to say wether a package was installed and |
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>> when it was installed its only an idea right now but i dont think it |
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>> would be too tricky to do |
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>> i would write it in perl but thats what i am good at |
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>> and perl has some nifty XML modules |
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>> anyone else interested in this ?? |
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Ingo> Would this give any speed up ? I don't know XML database features with |
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Ingo> perl. Of course you can store some constraint information with packages |
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Ingo> in XML but what I was thinking about went more in the direction of fast |
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Ingo> search trees and package hash tables, that the system administrator can |
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Ingo> search for portage packages and keywords. |
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ah ok so you want to put the actual portage tree into a database yes? |
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